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From the Experts: How to Prevent Cyber Attacks With Ongoing Training
Fear of power and financial prompts–that’s how smart employees fall for simple cyber attacks.
In this week’s episode of America Back to Work, S2Verify co-founder and chief strategy officer, Arnette Heintze, sat down with Dr. Shaun McAlmont, President & CEO of NINJIO–a revolutionary cybersecurity awareness training platform.
McAlmont specializes in ed tech, skills development, and adult upskilling. As such, he brings direct-to-consumer and enterprise training experience that has enhanced NINJIO’s unique and successful cybersecurity awareness training approach.
His background also made for a great conversation with Heintze, a former Secret Service agent with his own unique viewpoint on threat detection, risk management, and information security.
Together, they explore what exactly a cybercriminal looks like (hint: they look just like us), why employee engagement is tied to cybersecurity, the difference between cybersecurity training versus cybersecurity learning, and so much more.
The most important takeaway? Cyber attacks do not discriminate. They affect all levels of an organization, from entry-level employees to the C-suite. In fact, the worst offenders are often C-suite employees because they’re too busy to commit fully to training or consider themselves adequately knowledgeable in information security.
Cybersecurity training, both Mcalmont and Heintze agree, needs to be enforced–from top to bottom–at any organization.
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We’re sitting down with Ryan Cleaveland, co-founder of Spotter Staffing–an education-based staffing agency based in Chicago that prioritizes advocacy, collaboration, and integrity.
Spotter provides staffing services for educational institutions and school-based therapists. They advocate for both the institutions and candidates so they can focus on what matters: supporting the needs of children.
Learn more about Spotter’s unique and fair approach to staffing, find out what evidence-based hiring looks like in practice, learn how to overcome biases during the hiring process, and so much more.
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