The soldier takes an influential approach to training cybersecurity for employees
Although employers ask their employees to complete annual training courses for cybersecurity, violations of cybersecurity that depend on humans are still taking place. The problem can increase significantly as artificial intelligence increases and customized social engineering campaigns.
NationalityPreviously known as Cipher, follows a new approach to training cybersecurity for employees who hoped that the company will be able to keep up with the changing nature of these campaigns.
The New York -based company has built a platform containing practical security training for institutions. Training includes videos of the size of the sting and interactive puzzles for employee education how to discover suspicious emails and communications. These exercises are designed to be more frequent, more attractive, than the current standard of an annual and long training session.
“These activities include tasks such as the presence of employees to create their emails in hunting for teaching them how to discover advanced campaigns against themselves.
“We have taken very little, in fact, in the first place, there is no inspiration from the things there,” said Chaujurman with regard to the current training of cybersecurity. “What we really took is lessons from Tiktok, lessons from Duolingo Academy and Khan. We have looked at these platforms that really did, very attractive and change the user behavior outside the safety space and say, well, how can we apply those lessons within security?”
The construction of armed cybersecurity training was not what Sugarman, the former VC in Bloomberg Beta, was not initially launched.
The first idea of Sugarman was a way to take the path of training the cybersecurity industry “capture the flag” to employ cyber security personnel for institutions. This training approach includes the creation of programs with weaknesses and the presence of researchers in safety to the program to find errors and know how to write code without falling into the same traps.
This company launched a lodel in 2022 and gained some traction. But the chief information science science staff (CISOS) started telling Sugarman that their actions already have a greater security problem they were looking to address: their employees are inadvertently. Sugarman said that Cisos describes its employees as the weakest link of cybersecurity.
“What kind of surprise was in fact, just an amount of despair that I heard in their voices,” said Shogranman. “This was a non -solution problem for them.”
After that, the blades were identified in January 2024 to focus on solving this problem. Now the startup company changes its name to anagram to reflect its new concentration and is about its original product. Anagram has seen strong growth since its axis and customers have landed including Thompson Reuters, Massmuteal, and Disney, among others.
Anagram recently raised a $ 10 million tour led by Madrona with the participation of General Catalyst, Bloomberg Beta and operator partners, among others. The company plans to use funds to create its sales team and continue to improve the product. Sugarman said that they have yet been able to raise the company’s fishing failure rates from 20 % to 6 %, but he believes they can continue to approach scratch.
Sugarman said that Anagram launched its product at a truly interesting turning point for the cybersecurity industry. With the progress of obstetric artificial intelligence, social engineering campaigns can ever be more specialized, which will make it difficult for people to tell what is real and what is otherwise.
“I think this type of side effect is that the traditional email safety platforms will actually get more difficult to discover these fascinations that were created from artificial intelligence,” Suuzman said. “This ability to generate and ignite a very strong random, and is really difficult, from an engineering perspective, to defending it.”
Anagram is also developing an artificial intelligence agent who will sit in emails for the institution’s employees and will be trained to refer to potential cybersecurity before they happen. Schojerman said the agent will do things like a popup to ask someone if they really want to send their credit card information via email and other similar guarantees.
Meanwhile, Anagram hopes that its Tiktok’s training videos and videos will continue to move the needle.
“Humans are not stupid, we have built clouds that we can travel to space,” said Shograma. “We can learn how to click on a suspicious link in an email.”
