It is time to make sure that your employees are trained when it comes to detecting false emails, texts, and direct messages on their business and personal accounts.
One of the best ways to be ready for cyber attacks that might damage your reputation and livelihood as a small business is to work with a technology vendor that can provide annual security awareness training.
KnowIT partners with KnowBe4 to offer the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training to small businesses looking to tackle the issue of cybersecurity head on.
We can provide baseline testing that will send phishing emails to team to figure out how many of them are Phish-prone, or likely to click on potential attacks.
KnowBe4 has a host of template options available for these phishing emails; KnowIT selects ones that are the 5-star, highest grade of difficulty that are relevant to your specific line of work.
This is a great way to obtain pre-test data that will be compared to post-test data.
Will you or your team click on an email from a bank that is asking you to sign into the portal?
How about one from Netflix, letting you know that your credit card information didn’t go through on your last auto-payment? Even if you don’t use your work email for that account, some may click in confusion if they are not prepared to think before they click new links.
After the pre-test phishing campaign is complete, which typically lasts 1-2 weeks with KnowIT, we launch the security awareness training.
Depending on your preference, we ensure all those enrolled complete the annual 30-45 minute Kevin Mitnick training.
Additional trainings are available for new hires, those working with PII, and those working from home.
The window for trainings to be completed depends on you!
We defer to management, with most companies using a one-month window for staff to work with the online training at their leisure.
KnowIT and KnowBe4 send the training links out via email and there are options to pause, leave, and re-open the training at anytime to make it easy to use on your schedule.
If the deadline is approaching and some haven’t completed it, reminder emails will be set to automatically send through KnowBe4 – management can even get an email of which team members still need to complete it, in case they need to be given time during the workday to prioritize it.
We know how busy (or leisurely, for those taking time off!) the end-of-the-year sprint is for small businesses.
If you’d like to get your 2020 compliance requirement of cybersecurity awareness training checked off, there is still time!
Contact KnowIT today at 888-603-8280 to discuss the size of your team and your timeline to get started!
https://www.knowbe4.com/products/kevin-mitnick-security-awareness-training/
