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114 points BenjaminN | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.217s | 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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MalachiC0nstant ◴[] No.22677445[source]
Why is this any better than product offerings from PhishMe, Wombat, or KnowBe4?
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BenjaminN ◴[] No.22677632[source]
Most of them target big companies. It makes a very different product.

I have a fun story with Wombat: I tried to use the product in my previous company (100 employees), had 4 different calls, with 4 different sales persons, during 2 months. At the end they just forgot about me.

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1. jiveturkey ◴[] No.22678872[source]
don't know about wombat and the other, but how can you say knowbe4 targets big companies? Their SCORM integration is horrible.