3 Free Ways to Boost Cybersecurity Awareness

Only 31% of employees get annual training on cybersecurity.[1] If you don’t train your employees annually then you can leverage the DoD cyber awareness challeng e-course. It is absolutely free.

The DoD cyber awareness challenge can also replace your boring annual security training slide show. The DoD updates it annually and it is interactive. Employees also receive a certificate of completion after achieving a high enough score.

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Instead of always writing up a custom security awareness email for your employees just use the free tips from the Department of Homeland security website.

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The U.S. Department of Defense has poster quality documents that you can either print out and hang up or email to your employees to raise awareness about cybersecurity threats.

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According to Rob Kraus, random security training in organizations results in a 10-15% reduction on the likelihood of a successful attack and consistency in training and estimating its effectiveness is needed to reach a 40-50% reduction. As evident, he clearly points out that 100% reduction of successful attacks is impossible.[2]

Small Business Trends: Only 31% of Employees Get Annual Training on Cyber Security

Info Sec Institute: Security Awareness Statistics