التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة الإمارات لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
An out-of-the-box tutor: Kaspersky’s new Security Awareness Training provides every employee with an individual learning path
Kaspersky has unveiled its new Kaspersky Adaptive Online
Training, developed in partnership with Area9 Lyceum. The
solution generates a security awareness curriculum that is
tailored to each individual user’s learning needs, as a
personal tutor would do for their students. The content for
this new enterprise-grade solution is based on Kaspersky’s
cybersecurity expertise and delivered in accordance with
modern learning techniques.
Security awareness training is essential to introducing
cybersecurity basics to employees and giving staff the
information they require so they can work securely.
However, many organizations see that some training
courses do not necessarily deliver the desired effect. While
27% otheir employees’ actions[1]. f them in the their
employees’ actions[1]. implement security
trainings for employees in some form, only 10% United
Arab Emirates of the organizations surveyed confirm that
they have not encountered any IT security issues caused by
their employees’ actions[1].
Mistakes still happen because people tend to forget what
they have learned if they are not given the opportunity to
retain information properly. For example, the day after a
one-hour lecture, participants forget 50-80 percent of the
information they have been told, and when 30 days have
passed, they can only recall two to three percent of the
entire talk. However, employees find that learning about
what they already know, and even multiple repetitions of
the known facts, can be boring and annoying. To help
companies provide essential knowledge without
overloading staff, Kaspersky, in partnership with Area9
Lyceum, is presenting its new Kaspersky Adaptive Online
Training offering.
The platform builds a specific learning path for each user,
taking into account the knowledge that employees already
have and their confidence in cybersecurity awareness. To
achieve this specific path, Area9 Lyceum’s intelligent
‘biological’ algorithms intermix questions with the content,
assessing both the knowledge of the subject and the
confidence in responses as an employee studies. The
algorithms optimize the path to mastery, skipping over
content the member of staff already knows and helping
them master concepts and topics they are less familiar
with. This way, it may take a skilled employee less than 10
minutes to learn only what they are missing, whereas
others may need half an hour to complete the entire
module, which gives them more time devoted to learning
objectives which are the most difficult for the student.
The learning content covers passwords, email security, web
browsing, social networks and messengers, endpoint
security, mobile devices and GDPR (which will be available
in Q3 2020) topics. This skillset ensures that employees can
work with IT resources with minimal cybersecurity risks. All
lessons and tests are built on real-life situations and
examples of attacks which have happened in the real world.
Kaspersky Adaptive Online Training is easy to manage. An
administrator only needs to select which modules a group
of users should complete, while the solution will send users
the necessary link to their required lessons. The solution
also provides detailed statistics on employees’ performance
and monitoring of students who are confident in insecure actions.
“As current practice shows, the most difficult task is to
motivate, and teach new skills to, employees who make
mistakes but are resolutely sure that they do everything
correctly. This is called unconscious incompetence.
Adaptive learning methodology allows businesses to
identify such areas amongst their staff and put more effort
into closing the skills gaps, while the rest will not be
overwhelmed with unnecessary theory. According to Area9
Lyceum’s estimation, by using an individual learning path
approach, companies can save up to 50% of total time
spent on training,” comments Elena Molchanova, head of
security aw
