8 statements. Half of them are myths. Small businesses aren't targeted. Phishing emails have obvious tells. Security training changes behaviour. All false — and the stats to prove it.
4,484 alerts per SOC analyst per day. 45% false positives. Employees dismissing warnings in under 2 seconds. The volume approach to security isn't working — and we've known for years. Here's what actually changes behaviour.
CTM360's GovTrap research exposed a global fraud campaign running over 11,000 cloned government sites. The attack works not because people are careless — but because the portals are indistinguishable from the real thing.
BEC is the world's highest-grossing cybercrime — and AI has made the attacks indistinguishable from legitimate communication. The problem isn't awareness. The fix isn't more training.
Generic security warnings produce banner blindness — and decades of research explain why. What changes when a warning tells you the specific reason something is risky, not just that it is.
Most expensive breaches don't begin with code — they begin with someone making a reasonable decision under conditions designed to defeat them. What organisations should actually be measuring instead of training completion rates.
Modern phishing is precise, personalised, multi-channel, and engineered to fool careful people — not careless ones. The mental model most organisations defend against is now a liability.
Human risk management has been quietly redefined to mean "training plus simulations." That's proxy measurement — and it's measuring the wrong things. What a broader, more honest definition looks like.