Security awareness tips, industry news, and product updates.
DORA is best known for ICT risk and incident reporting, but it also makes security awareness training a compulsory module for staff and management. Here is what financial entities must do, and how to evidence it.
Reused passwords plus breached credentials are the fuel behind account takeover. Here is how to roll out password managers and build credential hygiene that actually holds across your organization.
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.
Compromise one MSP and you can reach every client behind it. Here is why managed service providers are prime ransomware targets, and how to harden against it.
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.
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.
The EU AI Act is no longer theoretical. From the AI-literacy duty to deepfake transparency rules, here is what security and awareness teams need to act on now.
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.
Ransomware is hitting healthcare harder than ever in 2026, and the stakes are measured in patient safety. Here are the trends, HIPAA duties, and human-layer defenses that matter.
Thread hijacking lets attackers reply inside a real email conversation, with a familiar subject, history, and trusted sender. It defeats the 'unknown sender' instinct. Here is how to spot it.
ShinyHunters' May 2026 breach of the Canvas LMS exposed data tied to thousands of schools and hundreds of millions of users. Here is why education is a prime target and how awareness training reduces the risk.