RED Security Helps Start Online Cinema Increase Employee Cyber Literacy

2024: Improving employee cyber literacy

The company RED Security implemented a project to improve the cyber literacy of employees of one of the. With the the Russian START online cinemas help of the service RED Security Awareness phishing to the attacks , one and a half hundred customer employees were trained in counteraction skills. RED Security announced this on December 17, 2024.

The commercial launch of the service at START was preceded by a test stage lasting three weeks, during which all preliminary settings for the service were made in the client's infrastructure - an antispam system was configured, templates for test phishing mailings were created, and a number of other settings were made. At the same time, the customer was able to clearly assess all the possibilities of the service. After that, the service was put into operation during the day.

In addition to the simplicity and convenience of using the service itself, I would like to note the focus of RED Security specialists on the optimal solution of issues that arose from our side during the configuration process. Operational technical support from the service provider allowed us to quickly and seamlessly connect all the possibilities for training our employees in the basics of security when working with e-mail, said START information security specialist Daria Erokhina.

When forming educational phishing mailings, such current corporate topics as educational fire alarm, electronic personnel document management, VHI and others were used. According to the results of the training, over 80% of the tested employees successfully passed the phishing recognition test, the rest were assigned additional training.

The main goal of such training is the formation of vigilance among company personnel against phishing attacks and the habit of regularly training the skills of recognizing techniques that attackers use in the implementation of such attacks on employees. After the first training session, the percentage of clicks on phishing links usually decreases, but after a while it returns to its previous indicators. Therefore, testing and training of employees on the basics of cyber literacy should be carried out regularly, "said Ilya Odintsov, head of the cyber literacy department at RED Security.