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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've also never fallen for any of the phising emails the IT department sends to test me, my secret is almost never checking my email

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My company sends at least one fake phishing email a week. They track stats for them on a security page and I wear it as a badge of honor that my report says 100% viewed and 0% reported.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My company makes you take a course of you fail one or if you ignore 4 or 5 so I have the highest reporting record of the company just because of how much I hate that course

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think they do that at my company too but in addition to not reporting phishing emails I have a personal rule that I don't do any "mandatory" training unless someone in my management chain specifically asks me to. My boss probably gets annoyed by that occasionally but you'd be surprised how much of that stuff I never get asked about.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Last year our CISO personally reached out to me and asked me to do the course that’s overdue. I was a little nervous for a second and decided to obey.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah that's a good call. I don't push back when asked directly I just pretend I didn't see the emails. Most of the time it's fine but the boring security stuff is usually the one they get me on.

My guess? Their bonus was tied to 100% compliance and you were one of the last people to do the training.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Nice. My company ties the bonus payment to completing all the mandatory training. You get many reminders from HR when the bonus payment is approaching