NexusTek’s Security Awareness Training equips your employees with the knowledge and tools to proactively identify and combat cyber threats, transforming them from potential vulnerabilities into your strongest defense against cyberattacks.
Employees are the top source of cyber risk, requiring effective, engaging, and regular security awareness training to influence behavior. NexusTek’s training delivers up-to-date, attention-grabbing content using proven methods on a schedule designed to maintain awareness and vigilance.
NexusTek empowers your team to combat cyber threats with targeted training, including education sessions, threat identification, reporting guidelines, and simulated phishing attacks, transforming employees into a strong line of defense.
Training sessions enhance security awareness by using real-world examples of cyberattacks to highlight the impact of employee errors and teach best practices for prevention.
Security awareness training helps employees identify subtle signs of malicious communications and practice safe responses.
Security awareness training emphasizes the importance of reporting potential cyber threats to IT and provides practical guidance for doing so.
Simulated phishing emails test employees’ ability to recognize threats and provide immediate feedback to strengthen security awareness.
Yes, and in fact, security awareness training is one of the most important components of a cybersecurity program when it comes to defending against ransomware attacks. This is because in most cases, ransomware attacks start when employees are subject to phishing attacks or other forms of social engineering, in which cybercriminals aim to trick employees into divulging their credentials or downloading malicious programs by opening attachments or clicking on links in emails. When an employee falls for the trick, this gives the threat actor a “foot in the door” with your network, which they can take advantage of to launch a full ransomware attack, a nightmare to deal with in the best of cases and a fatal blow to your business in the worst. Security awareness training provides employees with regular exposure to concepts and skills tests that hone their abilities to spot potentially malicious communications, making it one of the most important components in your defense strategy against ransomware attacks.
Social engineering is a term that refers to cyberattack strategies that use psychological manipulation to induce employees to engage in behaviors that create “cracks” in a company’s cyber defenses in different ways. For example, threat actors may send an email (i.e., phishing) that induces employees to download a file, which then installs malware on the company’s system. Or threat actors may send a text message that encourages employees to click on a link that leads to a form that requests their login credentials.
The defining feature of social engineering, however, is manipulative communication that plays upon employees’ natural emotions. For example, an email may communicate a request, apparently from an authority figure of the employee’s company, with an urgent deadline. An email might offer some sort of reward that needs to be claimed quickly, or it might warn of undesirable consequences if the recipient doesn’t complete an action within a short timeline. By creating a sense of urgency or pressure, threat actors try to trick employees into acting without thinking. Because social engineering is solely focused on inducing employee error, security awareness training is the best way to reduce this type of cyber threat.
Hackers use an ever-changing bag of tricks to manipulate employees, such as:
NexusTek’s security awareness training includes objectives such as: