Tools: Security Awareness Training Scorecard
Evaluating security awareness training options? Armed with a good understanding of the attributes of a best-of-class awareness training solution (see our eBook “3 Steps to Awareness Success”), all you...
View ArticleStudy: The True Cost of a Data Breach
When you begin to estimate the true cost of a data breach, you most commonly think in terms of dollars and cents. For example, Target’s 2013 data breach reportedly cost the company $186 million; Sony...
View ArticleStudy: Employee Training Reduces the Cost of a Data Breach
As you may have already heard, the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Global Cost of Data Breach Study has been released and it confirmed what we all sensed—the average cost of a data breach has increased …...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Making the Business Case for Security Awareness
Presenting a coherent argument is critical to making the business case for investing in a security awareness or privacy awareness program. This white paper will provide you with the tools and...
View ArticleSurvey: 2015 Black Hat Survey – Poor Employee Training a High Risk
The 2015 Black Hat Survey results are in and, as we enjoy doing with security surveys and studies, MediaPro digs through the findings and gives you the most important discoveries. This year, during the...
View ArticleAcceptable Use of Work Resources
Your office provides you many perks as an employee. There’s a computer for you to use—often at the office and at home. There’s a phone. There’s an email system. There’s a server where you can not only...
View ArticleMediaPro Launches New Adaptive Phishing Simulator and Knowledge Assessment...
BOTHELL, WA – October 06, 2015 – MediaPro announced two new tools to support its existing Adaptive Awareness Framework™: the Adaptive Phishing Simulator™ and the Adaptive Knowledge Assessment™. Both...
View ArticleVideo: Software Updates
44% of reported data breaches are caused by malware hidden in outdated software updates. And of course you have this covered with your internal corporate security patch update processes….but what about...
View Article2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Vendors
MediaPro has been once again recognized as a leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-based Training Vendors. The Gartner Magic Quadrant report analyzes vendors in a...
View ArticleTools: MediaPro Releases Awareness Maturity Assessment
You’re invited to try out MediaPro’s new Awareness Maturity Assessment! A short, 5-minute questionnaire is all it takes to get plugged into relevant insights on how to improve the effectiveness of your...
View ArticleVideo: Tis the Season…For Phishing!
Phishing attempts increase during the holiday season when some of us – cough, cough – are a little too “trigger happy” when clicking on e-deal or tracking our shipped packages. Don’t give the gift of...
View ArticleVideo: Physical Security
Remind employees that protecting information starts by protecting property with MediaPro’s newest security awareness reinforcement animation, Physical Security. MediaPro’s reinforcement library can be...
View ArticleNIST Releases “Guide to Application Whitelisting”
Whitelisting is an important strategy for protecting networks from malicious unauthorized programs. Hoping to make this procedure more standard, NIST has released their “Guide to Application...
View ArticleeBook: How the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Improves Security Awareness
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has become one of the most cited security standardization guidelines, and has helped create expectations around effective security awareness training. MediaPro’s...
View ArticleVideo: The Right Choice
Ensuring your employees make the right choice when it comes to code of conduct compliance can be difficult. The good news: evidence suggests employees want to do the right thing! Remind employees that...
View ArticleVideo: VPN for Safety
It’s easy to forget something you’ve only been told once! Remind employees to practice good security principles in fun and engaging ways – like MediaPro’s security reinforcement animation, VPN for...
View ArticleVideo: Do You Part for Privacy
Few things can tank your organization’s reputation faster than a data breach. That’s why it’s important to regularly reinforce with your employees their role in protecting personal information. Remind...
View ArticleWhite Paper: 3 Questions to Ask When Developing An Adaptive Security...
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has helped create expectations around effective security awareness training. But how does an organization with a burgeoning security awareness program (or none at all)...
View ArticleWhite Paper: 3 Questions to Ask When Developing An Adaptive Privacy Awareness...
The privacy landscape continues to evolve, and so must privacy awareness programs. In other words, the program must adapt. But what makes an adaptive program? As we see it, a truly adaptive awareness...
View ArticleWhite Paper: 5 Strategies for Improving the Effectiveness of Your Awareness...
Don’t waste time and money on an awareness program that doesn’t yield real results. Real employee behavioral change is what you’re after, and that means putting an even greater emphasis on the human...
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