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Security Awareness Training

67% of organizations worry employees lack core security awareness. Targeted, role-based training can drive stronger results.

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Why Security Awareness Training Matters for Your Business

Cybersecurity programs are only as strong as the people using the systems every day. When employees are unprepared, a single click, reply, or data-handling mistake can open the door to phishing, fraud, ransomware, or data loss. That is why security awareness training should not be treated as a compliance exercise alone.

The Problem

Human error drives more than 90% of security breaches, yet most training is generic, time-consuming, and easy to ignore.

Our Solution

Mimecast uses targeted content, phishing simulations, and reinforcement to improve retention and build safer habits.

The Impact

Organizations can reduce human risk with training that's easier to manage, measure, and act on.

Why Mimecast

Recognized as a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions report, Mimecast helps organizations reduce human risk with a more connected approach to training and threat-aware engagement.

Manage human risk

Get a centralized view of all human risk signals. Adapt training to target specific users as their roles and responsibilities change.
Change behavior

Leverage a context-enriched micro learning approach to foster engagement and support learning retention.
Real-world scenarios

Turns real phishing attacks into simulations to assess organizational risk, using pre-made and custom templates.
Engaging training

Hundreds of short, TV-quality videos covering critical topics like phishing, ransomware, GDPR, HIPAA, and CEO fraud — for every employee, at every level.
Targeted remediation

Direct follow-up training and reinforcement to the employees who need it most instead of assigning the same content to everyone.

Our Approach

Dozens of new modules per year keep training fresh and relevant as the threat landscape evolves.

Governance and compliance topics

Regulatory requirements including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR. Discusses data privacy responsibilities, and the role employees play in handling sensitive information properly to support compliance.
Cyberattack and fraud awareness

Phishing training, ransomware, CEO/wire fraud. Focuses on helping employees recognize common attack methods, understand how these threats work, and respond more carefully to suspicious activity.
Security best practices and data protection

Passwords, privacy, data in motion, office hygiene. Teaches everyday habits that help protect accounts, sensitive information, physical workspaces, and data as it is accessed, shared, or moved.

The consequences of weak security awareness

Phishing exposure

Employees who miss warning signs are more likely to click bad links, share credentials, or reply to scam messages.

Data loss and
compliance issues

Poor handling of sensitive information can lead to data exposure, privacy problems, and compliance gaps.

Security team strain

Limited visibility into user behavior forces teams to spend more time fixing avoidable mistakes.

Direct benefits and business outcomes

Reduce
Human-Driven Risk

Help employees make better decisions in the moments that matter, lowering the likelihood that phishing, impersonation, or poor security habits lead to an incident.

Improve Learning Retention

Short, entertaining, and relevant training content helps employees remember what they learned and apply it more consistently in real situations.

Streamline Remediation

Direct targeted follow-up training to the users who need it most, rather than rolling out the same content to everyone.

Strengthen Security Culture

Ongoing awareness efforts help make security part of everyday behavior instead of an annual task, strengthening long-term resilience across the organization.

Validate Security Gains

Training performance, phishing simulation results, and user risk trends make it easier to show improvement and refine the program based on real outcomes.

Identify at-risk
users

Risk scoring and simulation results surface the employees and departments that need the most attention, so effort goes where it matters.

Trusted by over 42k customers

Mimecast is proud to protect and support 42,000+ organizations globally, helping them navigate the ever-expanding threat landscape since 2003.

What is the Mimecast Security Awareness Training platform?

Mimecast Engage Awareness Training platform is a modern, engaging, and effective solution designed to reduce cybersecurity risks caused by human error. It leverages entertaining microlearning videos, real-world testing, personalized risk scoring, and targeted remediation to build a security-conscious workforce that can better recognize and respond to cyber threats.

Why is security awareness training important?

Research suggests that more than 90% of cyberattacks involve human error. An ill-advised action on the part of an employee may open the door to an attack, no matter how strong your defenses are. Security awareness training addresses these risks by familiarizing employees with the nature of cyberattacks and ways to identify and prevent them.

What are best practices for how to develop security awareness training?

Many security awareness training programs ignore basic best practices for education, delivering training in one-off sessions that overwhelm users with information, with content delivered in boring, fear-based messaging. Mimecast Awareness Training takes the opposite approach – we deliver short doses of cybersecurity awareness training on a monthly basis in an entertaining format that promotes user engagement and improves user retention of critical information.

How does security awareness training help reduce the risk of a data breach?

Security awareness training helps employees recognize risky behavior before it leads to a data breach, especially in situations involving suspicious links, unsafe sharing, or social engineering attempts.

Can security awareness training help with insider threat risk?

Yes, effective programs can help reduce insider threat risk by reinforcing safe data handling, improving reporting habits, and making employees more aware of behaviors that could expose the business to a broader security threat.

How does security awareness training support security operations?

Security awareness training strengthens security operations by reducing preventable incidents, improving employee reporting during a phishing attack, and helping teams respond more effectively to evolving cybersecurity threats through ongoing security training.

Security Awareness Training