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Omer Taran
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Omer Taran is the Co-Founder and CTO of CybeReady. As co-founder, Omer serves as the company’s technologist-in-residence. His vision for CybeReady drives him to build out a product roadmap that serves a variety of enterprise customers by blending best practices in learning with innovation. He’s known for bringing ideas to life both quickly and precisely. Omer’s vast technical chops are only rivaled by his pun-making abilities.

5 Growing Trends to Watch in Banking Cybersecurity

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As Cybercrime against the Financial Sector Jumps by 238%, What Can Banks Do to Address the Risk? The rise of cybercrime in 2020 was widely reported, but did you realize how much of the threat was targeted at the financial sector? 80% of financial institutions have reported a rise in ... Read More
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5 Growing Trends to Watch in Banking Cybersecurity

| | Awareness Training, phishing awareness training
As Cybercrime Against the Financial Sector Jumps by 238%, What Can Banks Do to Address the Risk? The rise of cybercrime in 2020 was widely reported, but did you realize how much of the threat was targeted at the financial sector? 80% of financial institutions have reported a rise in ... Read More
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Not again! Another Phishing Simulation Goes Awry

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
Key lessons from the West Midlands Railway incident and other common mistakes in employee training   How resilient are your employees in the face of a phishing scam? That’s the question that many security teams ask themselves on a regular basis. One transport organization, the West Midlands Railway in the ... Read More
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Not again! Another Phishing Simulation Goes Awry – Key lessons from the West Midlands Railway incident

| | Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness training
Key lessons from the West Midlands Railway incident and other common mistakes in employee training   How resilient are your employees in the face of a phishing scam? That’s the question that many security teams ask themselves on a regular basis. One transport organization, the West Midlands Railway in the ... Read More
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5 Reasons Why Text-based Training Beats Video Training Any Day (VIDEO)

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
There’s a rumor going around that people learn better or engage better with video content over text-based content. It’s easy to see where the misconception came from. After all, the average time every person spends watching videos online is 100 minutes per day. However, this content is all video that ... Read More
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5 Reasons Why Text-based Training Beats Video Training Any Day (VIDEO)

| | Awareness Training, phishing awareness training
There’s a rumor going around that people learn better or engage better with video content over text-based content. It’s easy to see where the misconception came from. After all, the average time every person spends watching videos online is 100 minutes per day. However, this content is all video that ... Read More
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Is Spear Phishing Employees an Effective Training Technique? (VIDEO)

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
There is a common mistake in security awareness training, where teams spend time creating complex and sophisticated phishing simulations that are meant to mimic spear-phishing attacks or business email compromise threats against high-up employees within a business. The truth is, even the simple use of the words ‘spear phishing’, means ... Read More
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Is Spear Phishing Employees an Effective Training Technique? (VIDEO)

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
There is a common mistake in security awareness training, where teams spend time creating complex and sophisticated phishing simulations that are meant to mimic spear-phishing attacks or business email compromise threats against high-up employees within a business. The truth is, even the simple use of the words ‘spear phishing’, means ... Read More
Blog – CybeReady

How to Mitigate the High-risk Employee Group Effectively? (VIDEO)

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
Let’s try to visualize a high-risk employee. What do you see? We all know some employees are considered more high-risk than others. These are the ones who fall for cyber-attacks more often. In fact, in many organizations, we see that a very small group of less than 20% of the ... Read More
Blog – CybeReady

How to Mitigate the High-risk Employee Group Effectively? (VIDEO)

| | Automated Training, Awareness Training, Compliance, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, Education Security, Human Element, National Cyber, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing awareness, phishing awareness training, Phishing Simulation Plaform, phishing simulations, Security Culture, Security Environment, Security Training, Successful Phishing Simulation, vishing, voice phishing
Let’s try to visualize a high-risk employee. What do you see? We all know some employees are considered more high-risk than others. These are the ones who fall for cyber-attacks more often. In fact, in many organizations, we see that a very small group of less than 20% of the ... Read More
Blog – CybeReady