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A Successful Security Awareness Program. Made Simple.

Our security awareness training platform, Infosec IQ, will save you time and resources by automating and streamlining the most manual portions of a security awareness program. We’ve combined 20 years of industry experience with built-in automations to take the guesswork out running a successful security awareness training program — allowing you to focus on other strategic security priorities.

New ways to engage with your Infosec Skills platform

Whether you’re new to Infosec Skills or have a few course completions under your belt, this post will show you the improvements we’ve made to enhance your learning experience, better discover and design your next training paths, and make it even easier to navigate within the platform.

Get "Straight A's" in Your Security Awareness Training Program

Building and maintaining a security awareness training program should be as easy as 1-2-3. With the help of the below tools and resources found in our platform, Infosec IQ, you can achieve straight A’s in your training program. Our goal is to help you educate, engage and empower employees to be your A+ cybersecurity assets.

Cengage Work Expands Ready to Hire to Close Critical Cybersecurity Skills and Talent Gaps

Ready to Hire for Cybersecurity, with training and verified talent from Infosec Institute, will help employers fill open cybersecurity roles.

Infosec Named a Leader and Outperformer for Security Awareness and Training

Infosec is recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Security Awareness and Training

Infosec Launches New Office Comedy Themed Security Awareness Training Series

Work Bytes offers short, entertaining and useful trainings on today’s most common cybersecurity threats

Winners announced for the 2022 Infosec Excellence Client Award Program

Ten clients were recognized in the 2022 Infosec Excellence Awards Program.

2022: A year of cybersecurity education with Infosec

Two fun facts: We launched over 600 new PhishSim templates and 81 hands-on labs. Curious to learn more about what we’ve been up to?

Infosec Institute launches free holiday-themed resources to prevent organizations and employees from being “Hacked for the Holidays”

Cyber training resources help security leaders raise awareness and protect employees during the holiday scam season.

Cyber risk management with straightforward reporting

Infosec IQ’s reporting tool, My Dashboards, automatically surfaces your most impactful data through visualizations — so you can spend less time gathering, analyzing and interpreting data and more time addressing your greatest vulnerabilities.

IT security professionals tell the pros and cons of their jobs

Cybersecurity professionals with "tangible, marketable, demonstrable skills can pretty much write their own ticket" in today's job market, said Infosec Principal Security Researcher Keatron Evans.

CISO's Secrets Podcast with Cengage CTO Jim Chilton

Cengage Group CTO and Infosec General Manager Jim Chilton joined the CISO's Secrets by Check Point podcast to discuss his work in the education and cybersecurity space.

The best cybersecurity certifications for your career

Looking for your next cybersecurity certification? Upwork collected the best available certs, including Infosec's Certified Expert Penetration Tester (CEPT).

The business case for apprenticeships: Filling open tech roles and creating new opportunities

The tech workforce continues to struggle closing labor gaps. In fact, 65% of tech employers struggle to find and hire the talent they need, according to Cengage Group’s 2022 Employability Report.

8 bad communication habits to break in IT

Infosec General Manager Jim Chilton and other industry leaders discuss typical communication missteps that can hinder IT productivity — and how to address them.

How Leidos Tackled Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Through Education

Learn how Leidos partnered with providers like Infosec to build its CyberEDGE Academy, which has helped train more than 100 individuals — the majority of which are Leidos employees.

TechGuard Security Keeps Clients Cybersecurity Aware with Infosec

"Infosec's partner support, the platform itself, the capabilities, the content — it was leaps and bounds better from our previous partner,” says Nick Just, VP of commercial strategic development at TechGuard Security.

4 Misconceptions About Workers’ Cybersecurity Awareness

Employee cybersecurity awareness is key to keeping data and systems secure. Infosec's Jim Chilton shares common myths and misconceptions about cybersecurity awareness that may be holding your organization back.

Experts on securing the public cloud

Infosec Principle Security researcher Keatron Evans weighs in on managing cloud security risk, training qualified staff and the future of cloud security.

Creating a unique channel program for cybersecurity

Donna Turgeon, Head of Channel Sales at Infosec, joined Karl Palachuk's SMB Community Podcast to discuss building a channel program.

[New training resources] Level up your zero trust and risk assessment programs

Check out the latest Infosec Skills training resources to advance your team’s on-the-job knowledge and real-world cybersecurity skills in the areas that matter most.

How to break into a data center: Pentesters reveal their secrets

Physical security is an ongoing challenge for organizations. Infosec Principal Security Researcher Keatron Evans shares best practices to ensure your data centers remain secure.

Infosec Institute awards security education scholarships to help close cyber skills and diversity gap

Fourteen cybersecurity professionals receive lifetime access to hands-on cybersecurity training.

Infosec Institute Launches Free Resources to Help Organizations Level Up Their Cybersecurity

Free resources and education help security leaders raise awareness, strengthen security behaviors and upskill teams during National Cybersecurity Awareness Month