Articles by Natalie Hoffmann
US tax-authority phishing surged over 400 percent in 2026, and fake ELSTER refund mails are landing while German employees file their 2025 returns. The core lesson for staff: the Finanzamt never emails your refund.
Germany's BSI warns travelers about fake booking confirmations as Check Point measures a 122 percent three-year surge in travel sector attacks. Vacation phishing hits personal devices that also carry corporate mail - making it a workplace problem.
empowsec maintains comprehensive audit logs, records every impersonation session, and provides a compliant account deletion workflow - giving organizations the accountability, traceability, and GDPR evidence they need.
North Korean operatives are using deepfakes and synthetic identities to get hired at Western firms. Unit 42 built a convincing fake candidate in about 70 minutes. Here is how to vet remote hires.
empowsec lets you organize employees into departments, give managers scoped visibility into their team's training and phishing results, and deliver weekly compliance digests so nothing slips through the cracks.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 expects more than a once-a-year slideshow. Here is what the standard actually requires for security awareness, and how to prove it to your auditor.
empowsec issues verifiable completion certificates every time a learner finishes an assignment or course, giving compliance teams clean, downloadable PDF evidence they can present to auditors without any extra effort.
empowsec lets you bundle modules into courses, assign them to users or departments with due dates, automate reminders and manager escalations, and set up annual renewals - so compliance training runs itself rather than requiring manual follow-up.
98% of organizations report unsanctioned AI use, and most have no policy to manage it. Shadow AI has become a top insider data-loss risk — and it's a security awareness problem.
Passwords and even push-based MFA keep falling to phishing. Passkeys close the door structurally because there is no shared secret to steal. Here is why they work and how to roll them out.
A three-day intrusion at North Texas Behavioral Health Authority exposed 285,086 patient records. Here's what went wrong and how healthcare teams can harden their HIPAA defenses.
Annual compliance training doesn't create secure organizations — culture does. Here's a practical framework for embedding security into how your company thinks, communicates, and makes decisions every day.