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How Your Business Can Implement Better Cybersecurity Training Practices

How Your Business Can Implement Better Cybersecurity Training Practices

May 5, 2025

Cybersecurity isn’t the most fun thing to talk about, but it’s still important. This is especially for your employees who are on the front lines, the most likely folks to encounter threats during their day-to-day tasks. Today, we want to cover how your business can build better cybersecurity training practices that can keep your business secure for the long haul.

Make Training Engaging and Relevant

Your team might struggle to see the importance of cybersecurity, but it’s worth putting in time to make its value as obvious as possible.

We recommend that you emphasize just how important the training is through the use of real-world examples of threats and how they impact life both in and out of the office. You can also avoid information overload through the use of smaller modules designed to be consumed over time rather than all at once. You can supplement these modules with short videos, interactive quizzes, and even gamified elements.

Once your team is equipped with the knowledge, it’s time to put it to the test through hands-on practice.

Make Training Effective Through Hands-On Practice and Simulations

It’s a lot easier to learn how to perform a task when you give it a shot yourself, and the same goes for cybersecurity.

One clever way you can use this hands-on training is through a cybersecurity incident simulation. It’s easy to send simulated phishing attacks in a safe and controlled environment, which is helpful for illustrating just how potential attacks can occur. Your team will learn how to recognize the signs of such attacks and address them without putting your business’ data at risk.

With this type of low-stakes training, you can prepare your team to handle the real deal threats that will be ruthlessly cunning and twice as dangerous.

Make Training Stick Through Reinforcement

Your cybersecurity training protocols shouldn’t be “one and done,” and should instead be revisited from time to time.

The reason for this is twofold. For one, people forget things and often need reminders, even if they’re the best of the bunch. The other reason is that threats are constantly evolving and growing stronger, using increasingly sophisticated methods to infiltrate systems.

We recommend you build cybersecurity into your company culture, whether it’s through regular security reviews, testing, or even your very own security newsletter sent out from IT with the latest threats to watch out for.

Implement Better Cybersecurity Training Today

If you want a better, more informative, and efficient way to train your team, we’ve got just the solution. Give First Column IT a call and learn how we can build your cybersecurity training plan for you. To learn more, contact us at (571) 470-5594.

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