What is Security Awareness?
Security Awareness is only one part of Human Risk Management. Its goal is to give employees enough information to help them mitigate and avoid risks. A security awareness program can include hanging up posters and screensavers to remind your employees about working securely. However, the question is: Is being aware enough?
The answer is no; Advancements in AI are making attackers’ technology too hard to spot. An employee who is aware of the potential attacks is still just as vulnerable to them. For example, before, an employee who was educated on phishing emails could easily spot one due to the grammar and spelling errors most attackers left behind. Now AI has made phishing emails even harder to spot and even employees who are aware they exist can’t always identify which emails are malicious and which are not.
Simply put, Security Awareness is a great start, but it’s no longer sufficient to protect your business.
What is Human Risk Management?
Moreover, what is human risk? Human risk refers to any error by a person that can lead to a breach or attack, including phishing link clicks, social engineering, online tracking, insider attacks,…
