Human-risk threats are getting complex

The rapid evolution of digitalization has dramatically increased the sophistication of cybercrimes, with artificial intelligence playing a critical role in facilitating highly targeted and complex phishing and social engineering attacks. Powerful AI-powered tools allow cybercriminals to simulate legitimate communication with a target, making it increasingly difficult for individuals to distinguish between authentic and malicious correspondences. Cybercriminals can exploit AI's deep learning capabilities to monitor a target's behavior, understand their preferences, and adapt to their communication patterns, thereby gaining their trust and exploiting any vulnerabilities present. This raises the stakes for not just individual users, but also organizations that could fall victim to these intricate attacks.

AironWorks' multi-layer approach

Traditional security awareness products weren’t built to face this threat and approach the human-risk from a real-time perspective. To address this need, our team has developed the AironWorks platform, which provides organizations with a powerful AI-based set of tools that allow them to better face this threat utilizing a multi-layer approach:

• Threat Intelligence: Continuously monitor and assess their human risk posture from an attacker's perspective.
• Targeted & Dynamic Training: Implement an adaptive employee training methodology that enables organizations to respond to real-time situations.
• Real-time Assessment: Utilize assessment tools that can analyze information in real-time to verify daily communications like emails, messages, and more.

Results

We’ve seen a great impact on our clients’ security posture and awareness after adapting the AironWorks platform. Across all of our clients, we’ve seen significant improvements in employees’ security awareness-related behaviors, including increased mentioning of cybersecurity terms in their conversations, increases in internal phishing reporting, and more. And with this increased security awareness and understanding, we also see employees performing much better against our targeted attacks over time and their failure rates lowering as they continue with our simulations, training and utilize our assessment tools to discover potentially malicious content.

In addition to the great change in organization culture, CISOs that work with us also tell us that their organizations' board members were very impressed with the high-level security awareness training, as they usually read on the news about highly targeted social engineering attacks and were happy to see that their organization's training achieves a higher level of sophistication.