The Top 5 Reasons Why You Need To Deploy New-school Security Awareness Training In 2018

2017 was a dumpster fire of privacy and security screw-ups.

To implement a simple, effective, IT security strategy will help your CEO to keep their job in 2018. Better yet, thousands of your peers will tell you this was the best and most fun IT security budget they ever spent... hands-down.

This list is the high-power ammo you need to get budget and roll out new-school security awareness training, ideally right now.

Here are the Top 5 reasons...

Social Engineering is the No. 1 go-to strategy for the bad guys. Unfortunately their time is money too. Why spend 2 months of research uncovering a 0-day when you (literally) can create an effective spear phishing attack in 2 hours? They are going after the human—the weakest link in IT security—and your last line of defense.
Ransomware is only geting worse in 2018. Email is still their favorite attack vector, and their sophistication is increasing by the month. The downtime caused by ransomware can be massive.
Compliance requirements for awareness training are being sharpened up. Thinking that today you can get away with a yearly one-time, old-school awareness training session is whistling past the graveyard. A good example is May 25, 2018 when enforcement actions for GDPR begin. We have compliance training for GDPR ready for you in 24 languages.
Legally you are required to act "reasonably" and take "necessary" measures to cope with a threat. If you don't, you violate either compliance laws, regulations, or recent case law. Your organization must take into account today's social engineering risks and "scale security measures to reflect the threat". Don't trust me, read this, confirm with your lawyer, and next insist on getting budget. Today, data breaches cause practically instant class action lawsuits. And don't even talk about all employees filing a class action against your own company because your W-2 forms were exfiltrated with CEO fraud.
Board members' No. 1 focus today is cyber security. Some very pointed questions will be asked If they read in the Wall Street Journal that your customer database was hacked and the breach data is being sold on the dark web. Once it becomes clear that your organization did not deploy a simple, effective strategy that could have prevented this, a few (highly placed) heads will roll. Target's CEO and CISO are just an example. Help your CEO to keep their job.

So now that it's clear you just have to do this ASAP, why choose KnowBe4?

OK, let's list the 5 reasons why KnowBe4 is the complete no-brainer option—after casually mentioning we are the fastest growing vendor in this field and have 15,000+ customers, more than all our competitors combined:

KnowBe4 was recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant
Goldman Sachs recently invested $30M of Series B funding in KnowBe4 because they believe in our mission
The KnowBe4 platform was built from the ground up for IT pros that have 16 other fires to put out
The KnowBe4 ModStore has the world's largest choice in fresh awareness training content
Pricing is surprisingly affordable, and gives you a 127% ROI with a one-month payback
BONUS: It's actually a lot of fun to phish your users and get the conversation started!

I strongly suggest you request a one-on-one demo for new-school security awareness training for your organization and find out how easy this is. You simply have got to start training and phishing your users ASAP because your filters have an average 10.5% failure rate. See for yourself why 17,000+ of your peers use KnowBe4 to train and phish their users.