The eight-month study, conducted in 2023, involved 10 simulated phishing campaigns targeting staff across the California health system. Researchers sought to determine whether the standard annual training,...
The study was run at a hospital, and they said that most people didn’t even bother reading the training, they just opened/closed it to get it off their calendar. They didn’t say how the training was implemented with regards to downtime, but considering how most hospitals are run, I expect that it’s managements fault that nobody actually spent any time on the training.
My office gives everyone downtime specifically for getting training done. They also implemented a phishing test email they sent out on occasion. After the first one got me, you can damn well bet I paid more attention whenever anything else phishy showed up in my inbox.
Yeah we get like 4-5 virtual trainings once a year. Most people just click through them as quickly as possible because they have other work to get done and it’s the same shit from last year.
The study was run at a hospital, and they said that most people didn’t even bother reading the training, they just opened/closed it to get it off their calendar. They didn’t say how the training was implemented with regards to downtime, but considering how most hospitals are run, I expect that it’s managements fault that nobody actually spent any time on the training.
My office gives everyone downtime specifically for getting training done. They also implemented a phishing test email they sent out on occasion. After the first one got me, you can damn well bet I paid more attention whenever anything else phishy showed up in my inbox.
Yeah we get like 4-5 virtual trainings once a year. Most people just click through them as quickly as possible because they have other work to get done and it’s the same shit from last year.