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Security awareness tips, industry news, and product updates.

Department-level training analytics
Compliance & RegulationsProduct Updates

Department Training Management and Compliance Digests

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.

Natalie Hoffmann·7/7/2026·7 min read
Reviewing employee-reported emails
Threat IntelligenceProduct Updates

Reported Email Review: Turning Employees Into Sensors

When employees report suspicious emails through the empowsec Outlook or Gmail add-in, those reports land in an admin review queue where security teams can classify each one and build real threat intelligence from what is actually reaching inboxes.

Marcus Chen·7/5/2026·8 min read
Reporting a phishing email from Outlook
Phishing & Social EngineeringProduct Updates

Report Phishing from Outlook: The empowsec Add-In Guide

empowsec's Outlook add-in gives employees a one-click 'Report phishing' button in their inbox - capturing email headers and content for review while instantly rewarding employees who correctly identify a simulation.

Marcus Chen·7/3/2026·8 min read
Security awareness reporting dashboards
Compliance & RegulationsProduct Updates

empowsec Reporting Dashboards: Metrics That Drive Action

empowsec reporting dashboards consolidate training completion, phishing simulation results, and risk scores into a single view - filterable by user, department, or company - with the same data available via API for your existing BI tools.

David Kowalski·7/1/2026·7 min read
An employee risk score profile
Security Awareness TipsProduct Updates

How the empowsec Employee Risk Scoring Engine Works

empowsec's risk scoring engine assigns weighted points to every phishing and training event, applies time decay so recent behavior matters most, and rolls scores up to department and company level so you can target help where it is actually needed.

Marcus Chen·6/29/2026·8 min read
Employee looking at a concerning email on their phone in a calm office setting
Phishing & Social EngineeringSecurity Awareness Tips

Sextortion Emails: It Is Almost Always an Empty Bluff

A threatening email claims to have webcam footage and demands Bitcoin — and it even quotes one of your old passwords. Here is why these extortion scams are almost always empty bluffs, and how to help employees respond calmly.

Rachel Andersen·6/21/2026·7 min read
CISO presenting security program metrics to leadership in a boardroom
Security Awareness Tips

Security Awareness Metrics Beyond the Click Rate Alone

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.

Lisa Brennan·6/14/2026·7 min read
A simulated phishing landing page used for training
Phishing & Social EngineeringProduct Updates

Phishing Landing Pages, Credential Capture, and Tracking

empowsec tracks every step of a simulated phishing attack - from the pixel that records an open to the fake login form that records a credential submission - and turns each event into a learning opportunity.

Marcus Chen·6/13/2026·7 min read
Employee reporting a suspicious email with one click at their office desk
Security Awareness Tips

The Report Button: Your Highest-ROI Security Habit

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.

Thomas Eriksson·6/12/2026·7 min read
Security team reviewing a phishing simulation dashboard
Phishing & Social EngineeringProduct Updates

Phishing Simulation Campaigns: A Complete Overview

Phishing simulation campaigns let you measure and improve how your employees respond to real-world lures - safely, at scale, and with the data to prove it is working.

Marcus Chen·6/7/2026·6 min read