You click on a PDF your CEO emails to you even though you’ve never received an email from her before. But what the heck, your computer’s virus protection is up to date and you’re curious. No harm done, right?
Wrong. You could be opening the door to a hacker wreaking havoc at your company—including stealing cold hard cash. And, because you’ve opened the door, your company’s insurance may not cover the damages. Scared yet?
Prometheus Training hopes so. The company paired up with KnowBe4 and notorious ex-hacker turned security consultant Kevin Mitnick to create the “Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training” course to scare you silly.
In his videos, Kevin Mitnick shows how hackers can take control of your computer.
The course highlights suspicious content rather than asking learners to click on it.
And should folks who take the course (or require it at their companies) expect it to work? If the success of KnowBe4’s clients is any indication, then the answer’s a resounding yes. KnowBe4 sends phishing emails to its clients before and after the training to measure the training’s impact. It’s typical for 26 to 45 percent of employees at these companies to fall prey to KnowBe4’s phishing emails before the training. After the training, that percentage shrinks by 75 percent or more.
This Articulate Studio course dramatically changed employee behavior.
View the InfoWorld article on this course.