16 Apr Annual Cybersecurity Training Isn’t Working, So What’s The Alternative?

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

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Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 16, 2024

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the security awareness training market hit $5.6 billion in 2023 and is expected to surpass $10 billion in the next four years. This market boom is no surprise: cyber threats are rampant and large-scale attacks continue making headlines, according to an article in TechRadar Pro by Neil Thacker, EMEA CISO at Netskope. Every organization, he writes, no matter its size, is at risk of a breach.

Annual cybersecurity awareness training is a regular feature on the calendar for most organizations in an attempt to ensure that every person within every department develops their cyber awareness skills, and is able to spot threats and respond accordingly before they become a major issue. In the face of fast-evolving security threats, this training is often outdated and can take months or even years later to bring that education to help people recognize the tactics used.

Ask any security leader and they wouldn’t be hard-pressed to admit that employees find annual cybersecurity training time-consuming and uninspiring. Often viewed as a distraction for an employee, many will click through, skim read, watch videos at double-speed and pursue whatever shortcuts they can find to reach the completion certificate, check the box and carry on with their working day.

So, how do we go beyond education? Organizations everywhere need behavioral intervention that helps to point people back toward logical thinking before they take big cyber risks.

Small, regular and human-centric intervention is an ideal route for effective long-term behavioral shifts. An example of this is nudge theory — a general set of principles aimed to guide human behavior down a more desirable path.

To his point of security nudges, the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast recently released a new weekly series dubbed “Security Nudge,” sponsored by CybSafe, developers of a human risk management platform.

Read the Full Story for more strategies around continuous employee security education and reinforcement training.

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