Despite the rush during the end of the year 2014 I suppose most of you recognized the rumors about the security breach in Sony Pictures or Malwares through LinkedIn.
As an active Krav Maga (Israeli Self Defense System) Instructor I am facing long years the mentality of people where on one hand there is a strong willingness by the attendees on the training to be prepared for the attacks itself but on the other hand they are not really taking seriously the prevention part of self-defense.
The purpose of prevention of a violent physical assault or an IT attack in my opinion is the same: To prevent the attack itself or minimize the impact of the attack by early recognition and countermeasures.
Instead of the physical preparedness (what is basically a preparation for the fighting part itself), I would rather talk about the mental preparation.
How to prevent, avoid, escape and evade situations of conflicts is what we teach in Krav Maga. To recognize the threat you need to know about the possible behavior of the attacker, about the type of the possible threats and to train the model situation.
I see no big principal difference between the prevention in self-defense system and prevention in cybersecurity. But how does it work?
One of the easiest way to attack your company is to go after your employees. And therefore this is where prevention comes crucial. The only effective solution is to educate users and to train them.
TECH-ARROW is an official distributor for KnowBe4 Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training. This training is a 30-40 minute comprehensive training for the employees. They get the knowledge what are the actual attacks of hackers through demonstration and examples, understand the mechanisms of SPAM, PHISHING, MALWARE, SOCIAL ENGINEERING, RANSOMWARE. The most important is, that the employees will be able to apply this knowledge in their day-to-day job. The efficiency of the training you can measure by simulated attacks and scheduled tests.
TECH-ARROW delivers ‘new-school’ Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training by KnowBe4 combined with set-it-and-forget-it simulated phishing attacks for an extremely effective user education program. And now there is the brand new, updated Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2015 for you: already over 2 million simulated phishing emails have been sent across 35,000 campaign runs! Find out how affordable this is for your organization and ask for a quote!
Everybody knows that prevention used to be underestimated even though the costs are far fewer than the costs for removing damages so why not to change this?
David Kaiser
Business Development Manager in TECH-ARROW, active Krav Maga instructor.
