<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cyberdise Blog</title><description>Research, guides and category thinking on Behavioral Defense.</description><link>https://cyberdise.io/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Security Awareness Salary: Are Awareness Professionals Underpaid?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-salary-awareness-professionals-underpaid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-salary-awareness-professionals-underpaid/</guid><description>In Europe, a security awareness professional earns €92K (about $107K) on average, in North America $131K, according to the 2026 SANS Security Awareness &amp; Culture Report. Set against everything the same report expects of the role, that is less a pay question than a priority question.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We Finally Have a Flawless Security Culture Action Plan</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-culture-action-plan-sans-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-culture-action-plan-sans-2026/</guid><description>The SANS 2026 security culture action plan is barely about content. A CEO and board member on why that means rewriting your awareness strategy and bringing the SOC closer to employees.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cybersecurity Awareness Month Is Serious Enough. Welcome to Human Defense Month 2026.</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-awareness-month-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-awareness-month-2026/</guid><description>October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. For 2026, CYBERDISE is putting together a free Human Defense Community Kit: editable posters, infographics, games and phishing templates, in German and English.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>5 Culture Challenges Destroying Security Awareness (And Why #5 is Your Silent Killer)</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-culture-challenges-sans-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-culture-challenges-sans-2026/</guid><description>The 2026 SANS Security Awareness &amp; Culture Report names five barriers to program success. The fifth, weak relationships at 18%, comes last and quietly drives the other four.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Berlin hack started with a CAPTCHA. With CYBERDISE, you can train for exactly this attack path.</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/berlin-hack-started-captcha-train-exactly/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/berlin-hack-started-captcha-train-exactly/</guid><description>When people picture a phishing simulation, they think of a suspicious email, a link and a fake Microsoft login page. The cyberattack on the Berlin administration is a pretty good example of why that view has become a little too narrow.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The 5 Biggest Human Risks in Cybersecurity - and Why #5 Is Ignored</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/5-biggest-human-risks-cybersecurity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/5-biggest-human-risks-cybersecurity/</guid><description>In the 2026 SANS Security Awareness &amp; Culture Report, more than 1,700 practitioners named the risks they are focusing on, and social engineering came out on top at 77%. The fifth risk on the list gets no section of its own, and that is exactly the one I want to talk about.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>8 Hard Truths About Security Awareness Team Size (SANS 2026)</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/8-hard-truths-security-awareness-team/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/8-hard-truths-security-awareness-team/</guid><description>I read the new SANS Security Awareness &amp; Culture Report from a slightly unusual perspective: I manufacture security awareness software. What stayed with me was security awareness team size, not tooling — here are my eight takeaways, including a conclusion I fundamentally disagree with.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the Employee Has to Become Part of the Security Stack</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/employee-become-part-security-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/employee-become-part-security-stack/</guid><description>AI is pushing cyber defense to machine speed, but the answer is not to remove people from the equation. It is to treat the human layer — the judgment, decisions and reports of employees — as part of the security stack.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>$4.99 Million: What a Data Breach Costs in 2026</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/4-99-million-data-breach-costs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/4-99-million-data-breach-costs/</guid><description>IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 puts the global average cost of a breach at a record USD 4.99 million. Two other figures in the same report tell you more: 63% and 247.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Do You Recapture an AI That Has Run Amok?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/recapture-ai-run-amok/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/recapture-ai-run-amok/</guid><description>In July and August 2026, three AI labs and one government evaluator reported that autonomous agents attacked real systems outside their test scope during security evaluations. Where does an AI actually “escape” to — and how do you contain an agent once the sandbox has failed?</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cybersecurity Awareness Was Designed for Yesterday’s Attacks</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-awareness-designed-yesterdays-attacks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-awareness-designed-yesterdays-attacks/</guid><description>AI lets attackers produce convincing attacks at almost no cost, and people are now the largest and fastest-growing attack category. This essay explains why annual training can&apos;t keep pace, and why behaviour changes most when people repeatedly make decisions under realistic conditions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Most &quot;Cyber Attack&quot; Infographics Are Wrong – And How to Classify Cyber Attacks Correctly in 2026</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cyber-attack-infographics-wrong-classify-cyber/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cyber-attack-infographics-wrong-classify-cyber/</guid><description>Most cyber attack infographics mix malware families, attack techniques, vulnerabilities and threat actors into one list. A poor taxonomy leads to poor decisions — so here is a clearer one for 2026: eight categories, each defined by the primary attack vector.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zeitenwende in Social Engineering: Why Vishing Is Your Next Line of Defense</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/zeitenwende-social-engineering-vishing-next-line/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/zeitenwende-social-engineering-vishing-next-line/</guid><description>Attackers no longer hide only behind emails: they call your team directly, armed with AI-powered voice clones that are indistinguishable from trusted managers or partners. A realistic vishing simulation makes your employees’ reaction visible — before a real attacker does.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are You a Boss? A Good One? And What That Means for Your Cybersecurity</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/boss-good-one-means-cybersecurity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/boss-good-one-means-cybersecurity/</guid><description>A look at what the leadership styles from Good to Great and Multipliers mean for a company’s cybersecurity – from incidents hidden out of fear to teams that act independently during a cyberattack.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ClickFix: when the user runs the attack</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/clickfix-exercises/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/clickfix-exercises/</guid><description>ClickFix does not ask employees to open a malicious attachment. It guides them through what looks like a routine repair or verification step until they execute the attack themselves. Here is how to build a ClickFix simulation in Cyberdise Awareness — from scenario selection to delivery and measurement.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Zeitenwende of Attack Vectors</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/zeitenwende-attack-vectors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/zeitenwende-attack-vectors/</guid><description>What happens when technical vulnerabilities disappear in the future – and humans become the primary target? There is a lot of talk right now about AI becoming the better hacker. That is only the first phase; the real shift begins after it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Behavioral Defense Engineering: Cyberdise in itbusiness.ch</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavioral-defense-engineering-itbusiness-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavioral-defense-engineering-itbusiness-ch/</guid><description>Swiss IT publication itbusiness.ch has featured Cyberdise, and the headline says it all: cyber defense begins with behavior. Its June 2026 article argues that security awareness training alone no longer protects organizations.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Awareness doesn&apos;t stop attacks. Behavior does.</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavioral-defense-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavioral-defense-engineering/</guid><description>For two decades, security awareness programs have transferred theoretical knowledge — and measurable organizational risk stayed high. With Behavioral Defense Engineering and platform version V3.2, CYBERDISE treats human behavior as an operational part of IT security instead of a compliance checkbox.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Next Giant Leap: Why It Is Time to Redefine Human Cybersecurity</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/next-giant-leap-time-redefine-human/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/next-giant-leap-time-redefine-human/</guid><description>Cyberdise is moving from traditional security awareness to Behavioral Defense Engineering (BDE). Employees already know phishing is dangerous, yet under the pressure of daily business they still click: the issue is not a lack of knowledge, it is a behavioral gap.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Defender Attack Simulator: strengths and limits</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/microsoft-defender-attack-simulator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/microsoft-defender-attack-simulator/</guid><description>Microsoft Defender for Office 365 ships with its own phishing simulation and awareness platform. In some areas it is very good. In others, structural limits appear very quickly. This is a deliberately balanced look at both sides.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Near Future of AI: Local Models, Digital Twins, and the End of Cheap Intelligence</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/near-future-ai-local-models-digital/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/near-future-ai-local-models-digital/</guid><description>It is no longer primarily software that is reshaping our economy and society, but artificial intelligence itself. Scarce power and compute could make AI more expensive and bring it back onto our devices, where personal assistants could evolve into digital twins.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI as the World&apos;s Greatest Hacker – and What That Means for Me</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-world-greatest-hacker-means/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-world-greatest-hacker-means/</guid><description>Anthropic&apos;s “Mythos” is a model that finds vulnerabilities like no human before it. But what happens when such systems don&apos;t just find things, but systematically expose everything?</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI: The World’s Greatest Pentester — And Why It Has to Be This Way</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-worlds-greatest-pentester-way/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-worlds-greatest-pentester-way/</guid><description>Anthropic&apos;s new model Mythos is said to be exceptionally good at finding bugs and vulnerabilities in software. How exploitable many of them are remains unclear, at least for humans — but AI does not think like a human, so they must still be fixed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Three Reasons Why Employees Get Hacked</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/why-employees-get-hacked/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/why-employees-get-hacked/</guid><description>Nearly half of all successful cyberattacks start with a negligent employee. Search engines will tell you it comes down to phishing, weak passwords and careless data handling. Look closer and all three say the same thing: this is about people.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NIS2 Is in the Budget - Not Yet in the Systems</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/nis2-budget-systems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/nis2-budget-systems/</guid><description>A study by CIO / CSO / Computerwoche, based on 324 interviews with senior IT decision-makers across DACH, shows how NIS2 is reshaping the way organisations think about cybersecurity. But compliance and actual resilience are still far apart.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free Phishing Templates and Information Security Courses in CYBERDISE Freemium</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-templates-information-security-courses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-templates-information-security-courses/</guid><description>CYBERDISE Freemium is a free tool for phishing simulations that also lets you train your employees with cybersecurity courses. You can edit all templates and adapt them to your specific needs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Defender Attack Simulator - What is Wrong With It?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/microsoft-defender-attack-simulator-wrong/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/microsoft-defender-attack-simulator-wrong/</guid><description>Microsoft Defender Attack Simulator is included with E5 licenses, and several German and Swiss mid-sized companies have let their awareness vendor contracts expire to rely on it instead. Organizations that genuinely care about attentive, well-sensitized employees are not well served by it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is Behavior-Oriented Cybersecurity Awareness?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavior-oriented-cybersecurity-awareness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/behavior-oriented-cybersecurity-awareness/</guid><description>Behavior-oriented awareness measures success by observable change in risk behavior, not by knowledge completion, positive feedback scores or course consumption. It treats employees as human decision systems – not as information storage units.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is Proper Cybersecurity Awareness?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/proper-cybersecurity-awareness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/proper-cybersecurity-awareness/</guid><description>An entire industry often offers customers products and services with little benefit. In the cybersecurity awareness market, they often do not aim to change behavior.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Does Our Free Phishing and Training Tool Do?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-training-tool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-training-tool/</guid><description>The CYBERDISE Freemium Edition is a free phishing tool and learning environment: technically speaking, an attack simulator and a lean LMS with a content editor and user management. Here are the answers on what it includes, what it needs to run and where its limitations are.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why We Offer a Free Phishing and Training Solution and Actively Maintain It?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/offer-free-phishing-training-solution-actively/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/offer-free-phishing-training-solution-actively/</guid><description>We provide a free solution for phishing simulations and cybersecurity training. Our motivation is about effectiveness, the market and our own standards – and marketing is not the primary purpose, but a side effect.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When Employees Report Suspicious Emails - It Really Matters How it Happens and What!</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/employees-report-suspicious-emails-matters-happens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/employees-report-suspicious-emails-matters-happens/</guid><description>Cyberdise V3.0 and higher offers two new features, the Email Threat Agent and Automated Incident Feedback. These two features turn every reported email into a measurable security measure, not just a forwarded message.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What We Like Best About Version 3.0 and Why</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/like-best-version-3-0/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/like-best-version-3-0/</guid><description>CYBERDISE 3.0 contains significant new functionality in AI phishing, LMS and training, threat reporting and message analysis, and even architectural enhancements. Here are the features we love most, and why.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the University of Osnabrück is our Awareness Customer of the Year</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/university-osnabrueck-awareness-customer-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/university-osnabrueck-awareness-customer-year/</guid><description>Our internal selection committee quickly reached consensus on who should receive this award: the University of Osnabrück. It receives the “Awareness Customer of the Year 2026” award for the exemplary implementation of CYBERDISE in an on-premise configuration.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>400,000, 10 — And Why 2025 Was Better Than I Thought Until Yesterday</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/400-000-10-better-thought-until/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/400-000-10-better-thought-until/</guid><description>In 2025, CYBERDISE won 10 new partners and 400,000 new users under license, yet missed its targets by a significant margin. Only conversations with colleagues showed that what the team achieved in 2025 was extraordinary.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attitude vs. Behavior: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Needs Both</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/attitude-behavior-cybersecurity-awareness-needs-both/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/attitude-behavior-cybersecurity-awareness-needs-both/</guid><description>Attitude and behavior are related, but they are not the same. Confusing them is one of the main reasons why many awareness programs fail to deliver lasting risk reduction.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Security Awareness Will Always Work – If You Build and Measure the Right Thing</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-always-work-build-measure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/security-awareness-always-work-build-measure/</guid><description>A Wall Street Journal article drawing on the study “Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice” questions whether phishing simulations and awareness training lead to meaningful risk reduction. A growing body of empirical research shows that well-designed awareness programs do improve real-world cyber risk behavior; what often fails is a narrow interpretation of what awareness is, how it should be embedded and how success should be measured.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Which new CYBERDISE Feature we built in 2025 you didn’t know about?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/new-feature-built-didnt-know/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/new-feature-built-didnt-know/</guid><description>Modern attacks happen in seconds, but awareness teams often work in days or weeks. CYBERDISE 2025 brings together AI reconnaissance, autonomous campaign components, multi-organizational management and a revamped content ecosystem — here are the features built this year.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Often and How Fast Should I Phish My Colleagues in 2026?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/often-fast-phish-colleagues/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/often-fast-phish-colleagues/</guid><description>How many phishing simulations to run and how often users should face cybersecurity eLearning is a recurring question in awareness programs – and far from academic. A sensitization effect begins to crumble after about three months, yet it would be dangerous to derive simple, universally applicable rules from that.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What CUSTOMERS DO WRONG when starting Cybersecurity Awareness Programs</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/customers-do-wrong-starting-cybersecurity-awareness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/customers-do-wrong-starting-cybersecurity-awareness/</guid><description>Like any other project, a cybersecurity awareness program can get off to a very bumpy start when it begins with an inappropriate mindset and management fails to recognize the value of awareness. We examined the mistakes and false expectations documented in a USENIX study and compared them with our own experience.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can AI Detect Malicious Intent in an Email?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-detect-malicious-intent-email/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-detect-malicious-intent-email/</guid><description>Phishing emails are becoming harder to detect, even for humans. A recent study tested various large language models (LLMs) for their ability to recognize malicious intent in emails and revealed significant differences in performance.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reverse Investment Pitching is Pointless, Even if It Would Be Brilliant.</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/reverse-investment-pitching-pointless-brilliant/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/reverse-investment-pitching-pointless-brilliant/</guid><description>Reverse pitching turns the tables: investors, business angels and VCs apply to startup founders to be allowed to invest in their companies. Whether that is a good idea has two answers: no and yes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investors and Founders: What Are the Criteria for Shared Success?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/investors-founders-criteria-shared-success/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/investors-founders-criteria-shared-success/</guid><description>After hundreds of conversations with investors over the past 15 years, the author turns the pitch around: five qualities worth wanting in an investor, and five to be wary of.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is it really easier when product-market fit is achieved? Well....</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/easier-product-market-fit-achieved/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/easier-product-market-fit-achieved/</guid><description>Product-market fit only makes things easier if you’ve got the rest right. Just having something on offer that people want does not guarantee business success.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Think You Know Awareness? Take the Quiz &amp; Learn from Swiss Hockey’s Playbook</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/think-know-awareness-take-quiz-learn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/think-know-awareness-take-quiz-learn/</guid><description>October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time to remember that people remain the weakest link in cyber defense. This article traces how security awareness has evolved and what building a strong cybersecurity culture has in common with building a winning hockey team.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navigating Uncertainty: The Entrepreneurial Journey by Laurent Balmelli</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/navigating-uncertainty-entrepreneurial-journey-laurent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/navigating-uncertainty-entrepreneurial-journey-laurent/</guid><description>What an entrepreneur with two exits learned from the experiences of a tech entrepreneur who has already had two exits. The takeaways range from team composition and storytelling to vision and relationships with the US.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Risk Attitude vs Risk Behavior: Are You Training the Wrong Thing?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/risk-attitude-risk-behavior-training-wrong/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/risk-attitude-risk-behavior-training-wrong/</guid><description>Despite comprehensive security awareness training, many organizations still have cybersecurity breaches resulting from human error. This article is about the gap between risk attitude (knowing what is risky) and risk behavior (actually acting securely).</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What the 2025 IBM Data Breach Report Really Says?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/ibm-data-breach-report-says/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/ibm-data-breach-report-says/</guid><description>The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report has been published every year for two decades. It’s often read for the numbers, but this year’s report says something more fundamental about cybersecurity awareness.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Key Weaknesses of Cybersecurity Awareness Providers and What Companies Can Do About Them</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/key-weaknesses-cybersecurity-awareness-providers-companies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/key-weaknesses-cybersecurity-awareness-providers-companies/</guid><description>Many security awareness providers and solutions cannot cover what their customers require. This article lists their common weaknesses and the practical steps larger organizations can take to address them.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rocky Road to Reducing Human Error (M&amp;S Lost £300M to Phishing, May 2025)</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/rocky-road-reducing-human-error/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/rocky-road-reducing-human-error/</guid><description>The Marks &amp; Spencer cyber attack shows that large companies with complex organizations, many languages and multiple LMS systems need cybersecurity awareness solutions designed to meet such challenges. Otherwise, there is a risk of group-wide failure.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The biggest cyber heists in history: The bybit, MGM and Sony hacks - similarities, effects, damage and awareness potentials</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/biggest-cyber-heists-history-bybit-mgm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/biggest-cyber-heists-history-bybit-mgm/</guid><description>In our irregular series on the biggest cyber heists in history, this post analyzes the Bybit, MGM and Sony hacks: what happened, how it happened, who noticed it, what damage was done and what the consequences were. At the end, we compare the cases and consider what could have been done better, also from a cybersecurity awareness perspective.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Hackers Love Your Social Media - and How to Stop Them</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/hackers-love-social-media-stop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/hackers-love-social-media-stop/</guid><description>By exploiting details from your LinkedIn profile, Facebook posts or company website, attackers can craft highly personalized phishing scams that are harder to detect and resist. This article explores how cybercriminals turn your online presence into a weapon and shares tips to help you stay safe.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cybersecurity in Elections – Is Fake News a National Attack?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-elections-fake-news-national-attack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-elections-fake-news-national-attack/</guid><description>The U.S. presidential election was hit with billions of cyberattacks – 6 billion, to be exact – and somehow, things held up. Now Germany’s snap election is just weeks away, and experts are already sounding the alarm.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investors for CYBERDISE Awareness? – Why We Are Looking for Capital</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/investors-awareness-looking-capital/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/investors-awareness-looking-capital/</guid><description>What began a year and a half ago as a business idea for AI-driven awareness has made an impact: CYBERDISE now trains and tests over 40,000 users. Having achieved product-market fit, the company is seeking investors to scale globally.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are You Sharing Too Much Online? The Cyber Risks You Overlook - Lessons From &quot;Carry-On”</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/sharing-too-much-online-cyber-risks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/sharing-too-much-online-cyber-risks/</guid><description>While “Carry-On” primarily focuses on physical security in an airport, its themes resonate deeply with today’s cybersecurity challenges. The movie is a stark reminder of how vulnerabilities, both technological and human, can be exploited with devastating consequences.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>GDPR vs NIS2 vs ISO 27001: Is There Any Difference?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/gdpr-nis2-iso-27001-any-difference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/gdpr-nis2-iso-27001-any-difference/</guid><description>Compliance is a cornerstone of trust, security and resilience, yet telling GDPR, NIS2 and ISO 27001 apart can feel like solving a puzzle. Here is what each framework requires, what non-compliance risks and how the three interconnect.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Psychology and Phishing Attacks</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/psychology-phishing-attacks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/psychology-phishing-attacks/</guid><description>Phishing attacks rely heavily on psychological tricks, which is why understanding these tactics matters for cybersecurity awareness. Nearly half (47%) of successful attacks still happen because of careless employees.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cybersecurity Trends and Data You Need to Know: IT-SA 365 INSIGHTS</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-trends-data-know-it-sa/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-trends-data-know-it-sa/</guid><description>it-sa Expo &amp; Congress in Nuremberg is one of Europe&apos;s leading cybersecurity events, and this year it set new records with 25,830 trade visitors from 65 countries and 897 exhibitors. We&apos;ve sifted through the highlights for practical takeaways, from awareness training to protecting critical infrastructures.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cybersecurity News: From AI Scams to Quishing [2024]</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-news-ai-scams-quishing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cybersecurity-news-ai-scams-quishing/</guid><description>A finance employee at a multinational company was duped into transferring $25 million during a fake video conference with deepfaked colleagues. This round-up also covers QR code phishing and a North Korean phishing attack on Diehl Defense.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Today’s Phishing Exercises (Simulations) Are Mostly Stupid?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/todays-phishing-exercises-simulations-mostly-stupid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/todays-phishing-exercises-simulations-mostly-stupid/</guid><description>Cybersecurity can make or break a company in the event of a breach, with millions of dollars and reputations on the line. Yet it is so unpopular among employees that most training programs end up being ineffective.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free Phishing Simulation Tool and Awareness Training with the Cyberdise Freemium Edition – DIY Cybersecurity Awareness</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-simulation-tool-awareness-training/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/free-phishing-simulation-tool-awareness-training/</guid><description>Just in time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month and it-sa 2024, Cyberdise presents a fully functional awareness software for free personal use: a free phishing simulator with cybersecurity e-learning and complete functionality.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beta testers for Freemium Edition of Cybersecuirty Awareness</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/beta-testers-freemium-edition-cybersecurity-awareness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/beta-testers-freemium-edition-cybersecurity-awareness/</guid><description>Cyberdise is looking for beta testers for its Freemium Edition, a Docker-based version for running your own phishing simulations and awareness training free of charge for up to 600 email recipients.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beware of Quishing: The Rise of QR Code Phishing Scams</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/beware-quishing-rise-qr-code-phishing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/beware-quishing-rise-qr-code-phishing/</guid><description>Quishing is a new type of phishing attack: scammers hide harmful links in innocent-looking QR codes, putting your business and employees at risk.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Universal Simulation and Awareness Solution: Cyberdise 2.0</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/universal-simulation-awareness-solution-2-0/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/universal-simulation-awareness-solution-2-0/</guid><description>Cyber threats are evolving rapidly, and an organization&apos;s defense starts with its people. Cyberdise 2.0 is a comprehensive cybersecurity awareness platform, developed to make employees smarter and more aware of the risks they face every day.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Cyberdise templates for phishing simulations – Content April 2024</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/new-templates-phishing-simulations-content-april/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/new-templates-phishing-simulations-content-april/</guid><description>Over thirty new templates for phishing simulations are now available for download in Cyberdise. They help the operator create a phishing simulation campaign quickly and can be adapted to the individual needs of the company.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Phishing Simulation by Cyberdise Awareness Takes Off [Press Release]</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-phishing-simulation-awareness-takes-off/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/ai-phishing-simulation-awareness-takes-off/</guid><description>Right on time for the InCyber Forum in Lille, Cyberdise presents new functionality that makes individual phishing and smishing exercises even easier to conduct. The Swiss start-up is strengthening its business operations in France.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Which cyber training has the greatest learning effect?</title><link>https://cyberdise.io/blog/cyber-training-greatest-learning-effect/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cyberdise.io/blog/cyber-training-greatest-learning-effect/</guid><description>Well over 60% of all hacker attacks are phishing attacks that target human vulnerabilities, so employees must be able to recognize them. This article looks at which e-learning formats for cyber training are most effective and achieve the greatest learning effect.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>