Security awareness training and education strengthens your last line of defence – your team
Birmingham Consulting provides a unique combination of workshops and automated security awareness training and education to businesses who need to equip their employees with the skills to identify and help prevent a cyber incident. This in turn protects the business and their information security. These services educate and prepare executives, IT staff, and staff to recognize, avoid, and effectively handle potential threats to your business. You will learn what to do when attacks happen, so that you can minimize damage and fallout.
Security awareness training is often mandatory
For businesses with cyber insurance, or those subject to industry regulations or frameworks like PCI (Payment Card Industry), NIST 800-53, CAN/DGSI 104:2021 Rev 1 2024 (Formerly CAN/CIOSC-104: 2021), security awareness training is often mandatory, typically conducted once or twice a year.
Live Workshops
Provided both in person and virtually, we train your team with engaging, timely, and relevant content on important information and cyber security topics.
Simulation
Assess your team’s ability to identify and report social engineering attacks using our advanced phishing simulation programming tools.
Reporting
Receive regular reporting to identify repeat employees in need of attention, support executive reporting, and meet compliance requirements.
Empower your employees today – book a consultation for security awareness training and education!
When it comes to information security, you can trust Birmingham Consulting to keep you armed with the best protective measures for your business. Book an information security consultation with us to find out how our services can augment your plans, tools, procedures and policies. Click below or call (289) 895-8948 to schedule.
FAQ’s about security awareness training and education:
Why security awareness training and education for employees is a good investment
Investing in your team’s security training will always be a strategy highly recommended by experts (yet frequently undervalued by businesses). We can help you create a culture of security within your organization, by educating and preparing your executives, IT staff, and staff to recognize, avoid, and effectively handle potential cyber incidents.
Here’s a summary of the key points on how security awareness training can make or break your organization in 2023:
- Prevents Data Breaches and Phishing Attacks: Good training helps employees recognize and avoid security threats like phishing, reducing the likelihood of costly data breaches.
- Builds a Culture of Security: Fostering a security-conscious workplace where employees prioritize information security in their daily actions is crucial, though challenging to achieve.
- Enhances Technological Defenses: Security awareness training ensures employees understand how to use technological defenses like firewalls and software updates effectively, maximizing their potential to prevent breaches.
- Reassures Customers: With rising consumer concern about cybersecurity, showing customers that your employees are trained in security builds trust and loyalty, which can be a competitive advantage.
- Helps Meet Compliance: While training alone doesn’t guarantee security, it helps organizations meet regulatory requirements and exceed minimum compliance standards by embedding security practices.
- Upholds Social Responsibility: A lack of security awareness in one organization can impact others by spreading cyberattacks. Investing in training is not just about protecting your business—it’s a socially responsible act that helps protect your network and the wider community.
- Improves Employee Wellbeing: Security training doesn’t just protect employees at work—it also helps them avoid personal cybersecurity threats, improving their overall sense of safety and wellbeing.
Information security is the inclusive management of technical, physical and administrative processes and tools.
People often use the terms information security and cyber security interchangeably, but key differences exist between the two.
Information security, also known as InfoSec, is managing risk to the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of information through Administrative, Physical and Technical controls. It involves the processes and tools implemented to safeguard information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. Therefore, it encompasses a variety of security tools, solutions, and processes designed to safeguard information across devices and locations. Together, these help businesses and individuals defend against cyber attacks and other forms of cyber incidents.
Whereas, cyber security is a subfield of information security that focuses only on the technical controls involved in defending computer systems and networks.
This means that information security is crucial because it addresses all aspects of protecting a business from both the occurrence and the impact of a cyber incident. For instance, ensuring that a business’ cyber insurance coverage and premiums correctly match their risk profile.
Therefore, by implementing strong information security, including compliance with your own policies and procedures, you can significantly reduce your cyber risk.
Learn more: What is information security
How our information risk assessments help you respond to identified cyber risks
Following an assessment, organizations are given a score outlining vulnerabilities identified. They are also provided recommendations on how to strategically respond to each of those risks, through:
Avoiding the risk: Completely eliminate the risk.
Mitigating the risk: Reduce the probability or impact of the risk.
Transferring the risk: Shift the risk to a third party, typically through Cyber Liability Insurance.
Accepting the risk: Acknowledge the risk and choose not to address, transfer, or mitigate it.
How can you determine where to invest in information security?
Firstly – how do you identify high-risk?
So, risk severity can be determined using the following calculation:
The likelihood of something happening
X (Multiplied by)
The impact on the organization.
Therefore, something that is high-risk means that it has a high likelihood of happening and would have a big impact. So you should invest in avoiding, transferring, or mitigating it. Whereas a low-risk might be something you simply accept.
