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Employee Security Awareness

Explores programs and techniques designed to build a security-first culture within organizations. Topics include onboarding security training, ongoing awareness campaigns, measuring behavioral change, insider threat recognition, and strategies to keep security top of mind for every employee.

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Phishing Training for Employees

Phishing Training for Employees: What Actually Works

The Click That Cost One Company $47 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts was brought to its knees — not by a sophisticated zero-day exploit, but by a social engineering phone call that led to credential theft and a devastating ransomware attack. The estimated cost exceeded $100 million. The attack vector? A

Carl B. Johnson Apr 02, 2026 5 min read
Cybersecurity Training

How to Train Employees on Cybersecurity That Sticks

In December 2020, a SolarWinds employee reportedly used the password "solarwinds123" on an update server — a detail that surfaced during Congressional hearings about one of the most devastating supply chain attacks in history. Thousands of organizations, including multiple U.S. government agencies, were compromised. The root cause wasn&

Carl B. Johnson Apr 02, 2021 7 min read
Cybersecurity Training for Employees

Cybersecurity Training for Employees: A 2026 Guide

The Breach That Started With a Single Click In January 2024, a finance department employee at a mid-size manufacturing firm opened what looked like a routine DocuSign notification. Within 72 hours, a threat actor had exfiltrated 1.2 million customer records and deployed ransomware across the company's entire

Carl B. Johnson Dec 14, 2019 7 min read