SANS Security Awareness

Summary

SANS Security Awareness provides organizational training programs designed to reduce human-related cybersecurity risks by educating employees on threats like phishing, social engineering, and emerging AI-enabled attacks such as deepfakes and voice cloning. The platform emphasizes building a security-aware culture as a critical defensive layer against increasingly sophisticated threats.

Key Points

• •Offers structured security awareness training programs targeting human vulnerabilities exploited by social engineering and phishing attacks.
• •Addresses emerging AI-driven threats including deepfake videos and voice cloning used in fraud and impersonation schemes.
• •Focuses on organizational culture change to make security awareness habitual rather than a one-time compliance exercise.
• •Provides resources for security professionals to train non-technical staff across various industries and risk profiles.
• •Relevant to AI safety contexts where synthetic media and AI-generated deception increase the attack surface for social engineering.