Articles by Lisa Brennan
Every back-to-school season brings a surge of phishing aimed at schools, universities and students - and the lures land in corporate inboxes too. What the latest data shows and how to prepare your workforce before the wave peaks.
The empowsec learner dashboard gives every employee a personal training overview: pending and overdue assignments, per-course progress, and recent completions - so nobody has to guess what to do next.
Detailed out-of-office auto-replies hand attackers absence dates, deputy contacts, and reporting lines - exactly when SOC staffing is thinnest. How to write OOO messages that say less, and why August deserves its own simulation.
PCI DSS v4.0 raised the bar for security awareness, naming phishing and social engineering explicitly. Here is what the standard now requires if you handle card data.
Attackers are phishing payroll portal logins and impersonating staff to reroute direct-deposit paychecks into accounts they control. The FBI has warned about it for years - here's how HR can stop it.
Click rate is the metric every program reports and the one that misleads most. Report rate, time-to-report, repeat-clicker reduction and the resilience ratio tell the real story. Here is how to measure and present it.