Kaspersky ASAP Automated Security Awareness Platform

2019

Kaspersky Lab released in April, 2019 Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform (ASAP) — the automated platform offering approach to the organization of trainings for protection against cyberthreats. This online tool allows to create and fix at employees skills of safe work in a digital medium. The person — the weakest link in a chain of information protection of the organization. According to a research of Kaspersky Lab, 52% of the companies consider worldwide the greatest threat to the system of corporate safety of employees as their actions can compromise corporate data. Because of carelessness and low digital literacy employees follow phishing the links, use unsafe corporate passwords, independently try to fight with viruses-encoders etc. Meanwhile, the error of one employee even in the sector of small or medium business runs very into money — according to the same research, the average damage from the successful attack to the companies of the SBM-segment is 4.3 million rubles.

The attacks of malefactors become successful because employees lack knowledge in information security field, and effective remedies are necessary for business for the solution of this problem. However normal trainings are too difficult and tiresome therefore they do not yield results — employees quickly forget the gained knowledge or do not take a course completely at all.

In the Kaspersky ASAP platform approach to the organization of trainings for protection against cyberthreats is implemented. The solution allows to estimate the current knowledge of the employee in the field of cyber security, to define in connection therewith a set of the skills necessary for it depending on its job duties and a profile of risk, to build the diagram of passing of the program. For example, only basic abilities while the head for work with confidential information needs to know how to secure data of the whole department are necessary for non-management employees.

The product is constructed taking into account features of human memory. During each lesson which lasts no more than 10 minutes the emphasis is several times placed on key messages. The lesson includes the interactive module and videos and also fixing and check exercises (the test or simulation of a phishing attack). Fixing exercises represent the evident tasks applicable to daily work of the employee. Working off of skills (and all their more than 350) is based on the principle "from simple to difficult" — i.e. so far check will not be undergone, the next stage of a training will not be available. Such structure allows to remember most effectively and, the most important, to use the gained knowledge.

Automated management in Kaspersky ASAP helps the companies to control process at all stages: from goal setting to efficiency evaluation. Thanks to a convenient control panel and detailed reports the company management will always have information for progress assessment.

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