Training your employees is their driving licence
Nobody would allow someone to drive a car without a licence. And yet, in most SMEs, employees use powerful digital tools every day — email, online banking, shared files, electronic signatures — without ever having been taught anything. It's not their fault. Nobody taught them.
What changes with 30 minutes per year
30 minutes of training per year per employee radically changes your company's security. Specifically, at the end of those 30 minutes, your employees know how to:
Recognise a fraudulent email in 5 seconds
Verify that a website is authentic before entering a password
Use a password manager
Understand why two-factor authentication isn't a chore but a protection
Know who to call in case of doubt, without feeling foolish
Why it's effective
More than 80% of IT intrusions start with a human clicking a bad link. No software can completely prevent that. Only training can. That's why user training is statistically the best investment in cybersecurity, better than a new antivirus, better than a new firewall.
Free resources to start today
You want to start today without us, that's perfectly fine. Here are three free resources designed for non-technical people:
iBarry.ch
The national reference platform, supported by Swisscom, Mobilière, Swiss Post and TCS. Trilingual, simple, up to date.
eBas.ch
E-banking but secure, by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. Specialised in the security of online operations.
cybersecurityforyou.ch
Free interactive e-learning with a character called Kevin, launched by Swiss Crime Prevention.