Teaching good cyber security behaviors with Seinfeld
Overcoming the employee engagement challenge in security awareness training


Failure to deeply engage employees is the great challenge of corporate learning and training programs. And — despite the high stakes involved — security awareness training is not granted an exception.
Employees’ primary complaint about security awareness training is that the content is boring, so they find it difficult to stay engaged.
This whitepaper takes a deep dive into research that unpacks how truly entertaining and humorous training programs are proven to increase employee engagement and lead to deeper embedding of lessons to memory, resulting in more effective outcomes.
Download it now to see for yourself.
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