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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.
empowsec training is built from interactive page types - not static slides. Part 1 introduces seven of them, from simple info pages and accordions to graded quizzes, scenarios, and drag-to-match exercises.
A real breach is the worst time to discover that no one knows who decides whether to pay a ransom. Tabletop exercises expose those gaps in a conference room instead of a crisis.
A phishing simulation without a debrief is a test with no feedback. empowsec debriefs close that loop by explaining exactly what participants should have spotted - in their own language, at the right time.
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.
Annual click-through training checks a compliance box but rarely changes behavior. Human Risk Management replaces it with continuous, data-driven, personalized risk reduction. Here is what that shift looks like in practice.
One click on a report button can turn every employee into a sensor and shrink an attacker's dwell time to minutes. Here is how to build the process and the blameless culture that make reporting reflexive.
New hires are eager to please, unfamiliar with the norms, and disproportionately targeted by BEC and impersonation scams. Their first 90 days are the riskiest. Here is how to build security into onboarding from day one.
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.
The FBI is warning about Kali365, a phishing-as-a-service platform that hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing OAuth device code authentication to steal session tokens and bypass MFA. Here's how the attack works and how to defend your organization.
Device code phishing is spreading through criminal toolkits and phishing-as-a-service offerings. Here is how the Microsoft 365 attack works and what teams should do next.
Bitdefender's Operation Road Trap research shows how toll, parking, and traffic-fine smishing has scaled across countries. Here is what employees and security teams should watch for.