Small businesses have special needs when it comes to security. Most news reports of cyberattacks seem to happen to large companies and businesses: hospitals, and Fortune 500 companies. These attacks make the news.

But small and medium businesses need to be vigilant!

When reviewing cyberattacks on businesses with less than $5 million in revenue and less than 50 employees, about 80% of these businesses will experience a cyberattack in the next 5 years.

The danger is even greater because:

1. In any given year about 45% of these businesses will have an attack.
2. 64% of business owners in this demographic believe they are “too small to be an attractive target.”
3. Employees at smaller companies experience 350% more social engineering and phishing attacks as employees at larger companies.
4. 47% of all businesses in this size operate with a zero dollar budget for cybersecurity.

Only 34% of these businesses require Multi-Factor Authentication for employees to access key resources.

What Training Looks Like

One of the best (and least expensive) ways to protect your business is with Cybersecurity training for all your staff. Studies show that human error accounts for 80% of all successful cyber attacks. This means that with proper training of your staff you can reduce your risk of an attack from 45% a year, to less than 10%.

Our training platform includes:

In this animated course, Iris the Virus takes on her first assignment to infect a workspace computer. She first needs to learn how to do her job well and not get caught.

• Phishing simulations-randomized tests of your staff help reinforce training and promote vigilance over your data.
• Personalized Risk Dashboards-Employees get a personalized risk score. Through curated learning experiences they can improve their work behaviour and also be safer with their personal data.
• Gamification-allows you to encourage staff through rewards and incentives and competition among each other.
• Interactive Training-Videos, games, and exercises help to reinforce learning. For example, follow the development of “Iris the Virus” as she goes to work infecting a workplace computer because someone plugged in an unknown USB drive.
• Contextual Feedback-Training focuses on the emotional triggers that cause people to click on an attack…emotions like fear, reward, happiness, or anger.

A training program for your staff is very cost efficient. Subscription to the platform costs about $10/month/user and takes between 10 1nd 15 minutes of an employee’s time each month. How can you not afford it? Ask us for more information or a free demo.