Mimecast: cyber security training courses done right
Human error – it's involved in more than 90% of security breaches and one of your biggest risks. With a 1 in 4 chance your organization will experience a major data breach that will cost millions to clean up, addressing human error should be priority #1.
Mimecast helps address this weak link in your security chain with cyber security training courses that actually work. While most security awareness programs are boring, time-consuming intensives – translation: ineffective – Mimecast Awareness Training packages critical lessons in fun, fast and frequent doses. Rather than dreading or avoiding training, employees love Mimecast cyber security training courses. They pay attention, which helps drive home learning about the ways they can become your greatest security asset instead of your biggest security nightmare.
Cyber security training courses using humor, not fear
Mimecast cyber security training courses are packaged in 3- to 5-minute modules that employees can digest once a month. Rather than a one-time security intensive, employees get a steady diet of short, engaging lessons that help to keep security top of mind.
Each module focuses on a single aspect of cyber security. Topics include subjects like:
- Phishing training, helping users recognize attacks and showing what happens when they're too careless in their responses.
- Password security, helping to instill best practices for using strong passwords rather than personal passwords.
- Ransomware, instructing employees on what attacks look like and how devastating a successful attack can be.
- CEO/wire fraud, showing how these attacks work and what it feels like to be the person who succumbs to one.
- Insider threat awareness training, helping users identify and stop potential threats from a fellow employee or a malicious actor posing as one.
- Privacy training, with instructions on how best to protect personal information they may use within the course of a workday.
- Compliance, helping employees understand and ensure compliance through PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR awareness training.
- Office hygiene, with best practices for securing their desks, screens and paper.
Comprehensive cyber security topics
Mimecast cyber security training courses are packaged in 3- to 5-minute modules that employees can digest once a month. Rather than a one-time security intensive, employees get a steady diet of short, engaging lessons that help to keep security top of mind.
Each module focuses on a single aspect of cyber security. Topics include subjects like:
- Phishing training, helping users recognize attacks and showing what happens when they're too careless in their responses.
- Password security, helping to instill best practices for using strong passwords rather than personal passwords.
- Ransomware, instructing employees on what attacks look like and how devastating a successful attack can be.
- CEO/wire fraud, showing how these attacks work and what it feels like to be the person who succumbs to one.
- Insider threat awareness training, helping users identify and stop potential threats from a fellow employee or a malicious actor posing as one.
- Privacy training, with instructions on how best to protect personal information they may use within the course of a workday.
- Compliance, helping employees understand and ensure compliance through PCI, HIPAA, andGDPR awareness training.
- Office hygiene, with best practices for securing their desks, screens and paper.
Risk scoring based on cyber security awareness
One of the biggest advantages of Mimecast cyber security training courses is the ability to assign personalized cyber risk scores to every employee. These scores are based on data from training, surveys that gauge attitudes about cyber security, and anonymized data from multiple industries, clients and the Mimecast grid. Scores are adjusted by how likely an employee is to be targeted by attackers based on their job title and department.
Mimecast risk scoring ultimately provides a watchlist that lets you know which employees and departments are avoiding or not benefiting from cyber security training courses, and which are exhibiting or are more likely to engage in risky behavior that can threaten cyber security. With this information, you can focus more time and resources on the employees and departments that represent your greatest risk, using one-on-one coaching and additional employee security awareness training to move the needle.
FAQs: What are Mimecast cyber security training courses?
What is cyber security training?
Cyber security training courses help to educate employees about the many cyber threats they may encounter in the course of their work, and how their actions can either mitigate the threat or exacerbate it. Cyber security training typically includes information about what threats look like, how they operate and best practices for handling them.
Why is cyber security awareness important?
Because the vast majority of data breaches involve some level of human error, cyber security awareness is important in helping employees to understand how to avoid threats and their role in helping to prevent attacks.
How long are cyber security training courses?
The length of cybersecurity training courses varies – some are quite long and require employees to take several hours away from their busy workday. Mimecast Awareness Training courses package training in 3- to 5-minute sessions that employees take once each month in order to maximize learning and retention of best practices.
What are the benefits of cyber security training courses?
Cyber security training courses can help employees to dramatically increase their awareness of cyber threats and their ability to avoid or handle them. In contrast to many training courses that don't actually move the needle on security awareness, Mimecast Awareness Training helps improve employee awareness by up to 400%.
