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114 points BenjaminN | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.261s | source

Ahoy Hacker News! I'm Ben, founder of Riot (https://tryriot.com), a tool that sends phishing emails to your team to get them ready for real attacks. It's like a fire drill, but for cybersecurity.

Prior to Riot, I was the co-founder and CTO of a fintech company operating hundred of millions of euros of transactions every year. We were under attack continuously. I was doing an hour-long security training once a year, but was always curious if my team was really ready for an attack. In fact, it kept me up at night thinking we were spending a lot of money on protecting our app, but none on preparing the employees for social engineering.

So I started a side project at that previous company to test this out. On the first run, 9% of all the employees got scammed. I was pissed, but it convinced me we needed a better way to train employees for cybersecurity attacks. This is what grew into Riot.

For now we are only training for phishing, but our intention is to grow this into a tool that will continuously prepare your team for good practices (don't reuse passwords for example) and upcoming attacks (CEO fraud is next), in a smart way.

Your questions, feedback, and ideas are most welcome. Would love to hear your war stories on phishing scams, and how you train your teams!

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mc32 ◴[] No.22677266[source]
What are the steps necessary to get this up and running?

Step 1, 2, 3... Besides signing up. ESP if you have O365 or GApps for mail.

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1. BenjaminN ◴[] No.22677314[source]
1. Import the list of your employees.

2. Whitelist the IP address we use to send the emails.

3. Activate the "phishing simulation" module.

4. Wait and see.

Takes 5 minutes.