User security awareness, typically a component of a company’s security policy, includes educating and testing employees to help protect your business against cybercrimes, including phishing and other social-engineering attacks. Security awareness refers to the level of awareness and understanding end users have about cybersecurity best practices and the cyber threats that their organizations face every day.

As the volume of cyber threats becomes more rampant and new threats come into focus, what remains consistent is that human error and sophisticated impersonation attacks are behind 90%+ of cyber breaches. By mitigating your organization’s risk with an effective security awareness platform you can make your employees your first line of defense against cyberattacks. In today’s complicated threat landscape, every employee must be responsible for email security. Just one mistake by one employee, clicking on one link in one email, could result in fraud, a data breech, huge costs, and damage to your company’s reputation.

User security awareness training helps every employee in your organization recognize, avoid, and report potential threats that can compromise critical data and systems, including phishing, malware, ransomware, and spyware. As part of the training, mock phishing and other attack simulations are typically used to test and reinforce good behavior.