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According to a 2019 Cyber Readiness Report by American insurance company Hiscox, sixty-one percent of firms suffered from cyberattacks in the past year. Thus, most organizations have acknowledged cybercrime as a serious threat by now. Advanced phishing filters, firewalls and specialist tools to increase cybersecurity have therefore become indispensable in many organizations.

Cybercriminals have therefore shifted their attention to employees: by exploiting the lack of user knowledge of IT systems among employees, cybercriminals are now indirectly using employees as their first access to those same IT systems. In 46 percent of the cyber incidents in organizations, uninformed or naïve employees made a significant contribution to these incidents, according to research by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Increasing cybersecurity awareness

A part of global cyberattacks could be prevented by ensuring employees follow and apply organizations’ precautionary measures. This can be done by increasing employees’ awareness of possible dangers, making sure they’re well-informed on precautionary measures and by training personnel in cybersecurity.

On Google, there’s a constant flow of people using search terms such as ‘cyber security awareness email templates’, ‘security awareness email template to employees’ and ‘cyber security email template’. The intentions these searchers have are great: using templates to increase employees’ cybersecurity awareness. Training employees by sending them emails with tips related to cybersecurity, and thereby closing common gaps in user knowledge, which then no longer can be abused by cybercriminals.

Prevention? Not via email

However: emails contribute to the information overload employees have to deal with on a daily basis. Research by professor Cary Cooper of Manchester University shows this overload of emails causes increased stress levels. And too much stress causes people to make mistakes. This quickly creates a vicious circle, that still increases cybercriminals’ chances of success.

Effective training program

To avoid falling back into this vicious circle, there are a number of things organizations can do to set up an effective training program:

• Identifying the threats that apply to specific situations in your organization. Without knowledge of areas of the organization that need more surveillance, you don’t know where danger lurks. This complicates the prevention of a possible cyberattack.
• Preventing information overload, so employees won’t be overwhelmed by too much information they can’t possibly remember.
• Training employees at their own pace and giving them the opportunity to repeat small parts of their training.
• Continuously training employees on cybersecurity, so they can actually remember their training and apply it on a daily basis.

To continuously train your employees, we’ve created dozens of free awareness templates. These contain useful information and practical tips. From internet security do’s and don’ts to recognizing phishing attacks. Your staff will learn the basics on how to keep your organization cybersafe, daily!

What do you get?

 A free cybersecurity awareness pack, including full screen templates (pc and tv) and ready-to-use content. This will cover topics such as phishing, ransomware, password policy and many more.