Cyberheistnews Vol 15 #22 If I Had Only 20 Seconds To Teach People How To Avoid Scams
KnowBe4, Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
Human risk management involves more than security awareness training, but training is a huge part of the mix. How else are you going to best fight a cyberthreat that is responsible for 70% to 90% of all successful data breaches after already bypassing every technical cybersecurity defense you threw in its way?
At some point, a harmful scam message will make it to a user, and that user will be called upon to evaluate its importance and treatment. The user will be called upon to make a security decision that will impact their future happiness and maybe that of their employer.
Training people how to recognize and mitigate scams as effectively as possible isn't easy, especially in today's world, where anyone can use an AI-enabled deepfake to try to scam anyone else.