As more communication across organisations are moving online vulnerabilities are easily exploited by cyber criminals. Phishing attempts can cause havoc, data loss, data corruption and even halt operations when a malicious actor infiltrates an organisation.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a type of cyber-attack where attackers attempt to deceive staff members into providing sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data to infiltrate private networks.
This attack is typically done by malicious actors pretending to be a trustworthy entity or person in electronic communications. The most common ways these attacks are done via email, social media messaging, SMS and even phone calls.
How Does Training Work?
Phishing training simulates an attempt across an organisation to evaluate staff readiness, attention and ability to spot and report attempts. If various staff members fail the unprompted test, it’s important for the staff members to receive required cybersecurity training to prevent an actual attempt from being successful.
How Effective is This Type of Training?
Staff phishing training has the potential to be successful and can support organisations to defend themselves against attacks.
With a focus on:
- Improving staff cybersecurity awareness.
- Fostering a work culture of vigilance.
- Promoting initiative-taking reporting and responses from staff.
Phishing training can successfully prevent the likelihood of successful attacks and strengthen the organisation’s cybersecurity resilience.
However, organisations need to implement continuous improvement, realistic simulations, and regular awareness training to maintain the effectiveness of training programs.
Make Phishing Training Easy and Effective
To ensure phishing training is effective, efficient, and easy to understand it’s important to make training available to all staff in a way that suits their needs and time constraints.
This is why we have established an eLearning course that supports your staff in understand these types of attacks, how to identify them and to ensure proactive response rates to protect your organisations sensitive data and reputation.
The WWISE Cybersecurity Training Hub
On our eLearning platform we provide various cybersecurity courses that ensures your staff is up to date on best practices and are able to identify when an email is secure and when it is a phishing attempt.
If our staff needs awareness training or refresher training our Online Phishing Course supports their learning and provides your staff with certificates of completion once they score 60% or more on their final assessment, ensuring their ability and understanding.
Speak to one of our expert cybersecurity experts today on 012 644 0142 or send us an email at admin@wwise.co.za if you have any questions.