When it comes to cybersecurity, there’s so much emphasis centered on technology—keeping networks, devices and IT environments safe—that organizations often forget hackers aren’t always targeting ...

Roy Zur is the founder and CEO of ThriveDX Enterprise: a leading end-to-end human factor cybersecurity solutions provider. I believe the key to reducing these threats is improving security awareness ...

A skilled team of professionals and the right security technologies are undoubtedly important to securing your organization, but your first line of defense against cybercrime is always your employees.

There’s an old adage in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. That’s increasingly true, as threat actors compete to exploit credulous or careless employees. But it’s ...

Data security is one of those issues that "takes a village" to address—and HR professionals are part of that village. HR can play an important role in helping to ensure that employees have the ...

Security awareness training programs are maturing as security teams recognize the need to secure the "human element" of cyber risk. But in the face of more sophisticated attacks using MFA bypass ...

The University protects personal data, in part, by requiring information security awareness training for all employees. Security awareness is the knowledge and attitude members of an organization ...

One of the biggest mistakes that low-performing security education programs make is treating security awareness training as if every user impacts security in exactly the same way. Everyone gets the ...

During the 2016 National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, Frederick Scholl wrote an intriguing article for CSO Magazine entitled, “Time to kill security awareness training.” Many people ...

Most successful cyberattacks target end users through social engineering. They also exploit systems left vulnerable due to user errors. This is why securing the human element is crucial to managing ...