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In the vast digital landscape, where identities can be easily manipulated, a concerning threat lurks — spoofing. This blog post aims to shed light on spoofing, what it is, how it works, the different types of spoofing, and most importantly, how to identify and protect yourself against this practice. The best way to defend your organisation against this practice is by making your colleagues aware of this issue. Keep reading and we’ll tell you all about it.  ..read more

Protecting your online privacy and personal information on the internet has never been more important. A threat looms large across the internet— doxxing. This blog post aims to explain what doxxing is , how it works, the different types of doxxing, and most importantly, how you and your employees can defend your organisation against being doxxed  ..read more

Quishing is the new phishing. A deceptive tactic that combines QR codes with phishing. This kind of phishing, also known as QR code phishing, capitalizes on the widespread use of QR codes for various purposes. In this blog post, we'll delve into what quishing is, how it works and most importantly, how you can make your colleagues aware of this practice and defend your organisation ..read more

We've launched our new CyberPilot platform!! And we are quite proud of it, so we think we should tell you a little about what we've done and how it's better than before! I can spoil it for you, that it's never been easier to run your awareness and phishing-training and the new platform saves you a lot of time ..read more

Human mistakes cause most cybersecurity problems. To keep your business safe and follow the rules, you need to manage the risk of your employees making errors that lead to data breaches. A critical part of managing this risk is to provide ongoing training to your employees. This training should teach employees how to spot and deal with online threats and follow good security practices. But when you decide to provide this training, you might wonder which topics to cover. In this blogpost we will go through 8 essential topics as well as a few additional ones to cover in your security training ..read more

In this blog post we’ll cover 7 reasons why security awareness training is important and what a good training program should look like. Awareness training is not just a compliance box to tick; it's the key to changing your organization's cybersecurity culture. With the right training, you can make your team aware of cyber threats and reduce those costly human errors that often lead to data breaches. An astounding 74% of data breaches in 2023involved a human element. Read on to discover the importance of awareness training.  ..read more

There are a lot of challenges to working with security awareness training on your own, and it can be hard to predict all of them if you haven’t tried setting it up yourself. A main challenge is not having enough time or resources to create, administer, and maintain a high-quality program on your own. In this blog post, we give you our advice on what it takes to make a successful awareness training program yourself. We lay it all out for you, and in the end, we will also write about what it is that we can help with. Hopefully, this can help you figure out if you want to create your own awarene ..read more

Planning an awareness training curriculum can be challenging – it's something we hear all the time. So, we've made a recommended course plan for the first year of awareness training. Whether you are already a CyberPilot customer, or just looking to get your feet wet with awareness training, we hope our guidance can be useful to you. Our recommended plan is generally applicable, but we also know that some organisations want to put their own twist on it. But how do you do this properly? Which elements are key to a successful awareness training program and which elements are you free to play aro ..read more

Most data breaches involve a human element, and some form of social engineering is present in almost all cyber-attacks. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to gain our trust by exploiting our vulnerabilities. With phishing scams rapidly increasingand becoming more sophisticated all organisations are at risk of being targeted. Knowing about the most common social engineering tactics and the reasons they work can help you recognise these threats, and with the right countermeasures in place, defend against them.  ..read more