September 5 2017, Bethesda, MD –  SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced the release of an updated and enhanced SANS Security Awareness -phishing training solution. The update to the SANS Phishing Training solution will make it easier for security awareness professionals to manage and measure phishing training program success.

The integrated Phishing training solution offers regularly updated phishing templates, matching current cyber threats. Additional highlights of the updated solution include:

• The ability to practice phishing simulations
• Turnkey email templates for easy program roll-out
• Tools (Dashboards or reports) to measure the effectiveness of your program
• A unique tiered structure to assign campaigns based on complexity among Segment groups within an organization
• Integration with other security training efforts within the Advanced Cybersecurity Learning Platform (ACLP)

SANS Phishing Training is timely and useful for anyone building a security awareness program. According to Lance Spitzner, Director of SANS Security Awareness program, “The new SANS Phishing Training is a turnkey solution for today’s time-starved security awareness professional. SANS phishing training makes it easier to measure and manage a program and ultimately change behavior.”

Customers have already seen the impact of using SANS Phishing Training within their companies. Mark Duening, CIO of U.S. Venture states, “The SANS phishing assessment has been a good tool for teaching our team members how to be more savvy when reacting to potentially harmful emails. The ability to positively enforce good behavior, while supplementing with SANS training for those still learning, has proven to be a good combination for our Information Security Awareness Program.”

SANS instructors are the experts in their fields, and have intentionally designed SANS Phishing Training to deliver multiple phishing training modules along with the ability to execute relevant phishing campaign training to seamlessly integrate with the Advanced Cybersecurity Learning Platform (ACLP). This training, along with the suite of SANS training programs addresses the full range of cybersecurity risk behaviors and makes program management easier and behavior change within reach.