“Security culture” refers to the collective mindset, attitudes, and behaviors within an organization that prioritize and support protecting sensitive information, systems, and assets. This goes beyond basic policies and procedures. Security culture embeds security awareness into every employee’s everyday decisions and actions, so everyone understands their role in keeping the organization safe against threats. It means everyone is proactive in identifying and mitigating risks.

Developing a strong security culture is a shared responsibility that starts with leadership. Executives and managers set the tone by prioritizing security, giving people the resources they need, and leading by example. But every employee has a hand in building and maintaining a security culture by adhering to best practices, participating in training, and staying vigilant against potential threats.

Learners are tired of long, boring, and overly complex or simplified training. They won’t get that with Huntress Managed SAT. Instead, they’ll enjoy engaging, story-based episodes crafted by cybersecurity experts and Emmy-winning animators. The content is rich enough to change behaviors, while being easy to understand for all technical levels. Our story-based approach and adherence to adult learning and behavior models like the Fogg and ADKAR frameworks are all proven ways to boost engagement and lesson retention.

Your learners want training on the threats they could actually face today. In fact, in a recent report, learners said that “training based on today’s threats” was their top priority. With Huntress Managed SAT, your end users learn about the most current threats and tradecraft that’s compromising people in the wild. That’s because the Huntress AI-assisted SOC and our Threat Researchers combine their expertise with threat intelligence from millions of managed endpoints and identities managed by Huntress to create training content based on the

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Shaming, punishing, or making learners feel bad about clicking on a phishing scenario does more harm to your security culture and posture than good. Instead, turn these moments of compromise into positive learning opportunities that uplevel risky users and reinforce SAT’s importance in the learner’s mind. With Phishing Defense Coaching, you can give learners compromised by phishing scenarios personalized, just-in-time coaching sessions led by a Huntress Threat Researcher. They’ll reflect on their reasoning for clicking, and walk through the exact scenario they interacted with to help them better understand what happened, and most importantly, how to prevent it from happening again.

Give learners an experience that grabs their attention and promotes critical thinking with the hands-on Threat Simulator. Going beyond phishing scenarios, learners carry out simulated “threats” with various types of tradecraft they’re likely to face. This interactive experience helps them understand the motives, thought processes, and tactics hackers use to target them with attacks. It teaches learners to think like a hacker so they can become better defenders and they’ll have fun while doing it.

With Behavior-Based Assignments, you can give users who’ve triggered a real-world incident through Huntress Managed EDR or ITDR a targeted intervention training based on the exact behavior that triggered the incident. By assigning it directly from the incident report, you can quickly address this risky behavior while emphasizing vigilance and SAT best practices to the user so it won’t happen again.

Introduce friendly competition to your SAT program with gamification that gets learners excited, competitive, and bought-in to their training. Badges, achievements, and leaderboards all reinforce positive security awareness behaviors, encourage learner participation, and continue to build your security culture.

To build a security culture, you need your training content to be new, relevant, and, most importantly, consistent. Learners quickly disengage from repetitive training that rehashes old topics without giving them any new insights. They want updated training that genuinely prepares them for real-world threats. Meanwhile, a consistent and predictable training schedule (think: monthly training) keeps learners engaged and security awareness top of mind.

These elements are crucial for fostering a security culture, as they encourage learners to actively engage with and frequently consider SAT throughout their day-to-day, but maintaining this type of program takes a lot of effort. With Huntress Managed SAT, our team of security experts handles this work for you. We create, curate, and deliver monthly training episodes and simulated phishing campaigns so your learners only get training that lives up to the standards that a strong security culture demands.