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The Canvas Breach Isn’t Yours, but the Response Is
By John Trest, CLO of Inspired eLearning During one of the busiest periods of the school year, schools and universities in the US were targeted in an attack on the Canvas learning management platform. This disrupted online classes and raised concerns about data breaches…
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Digital Natives are Digital Naïves: Child Online Safety is More Than Screen Time Rules
By John Trest, CLO of Inspired eLearning We often hear that kids today are “digital natives.” They swipe long before they can write. They navigate apps before they can tie their shoelaces. By the time they reach adolescence, many are online daily, and often constantly. However,…
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Federal Cybersecurity Grants for Schools: What Every District Leader Needs to Know
By John Trest, CLO, Inspired eLearning Budget constraints are one of the most common reasons school leaders hesitate to expand cybersecurity investments. Yet what if federal cybersecurity grants for schools specifically designed for this purpose already exist? The State and…
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Snackable, Smart, and Simulated: Security Awareness Training Trends 2026
By John Trest , CLO Inspired eLearning, and Peter Szlavik, Founder & CEO EDUardo. In Inspired eLearning’s recent webinar on training trends for 2026, one message stood out: The way people learn has changed, and security awareness training programs need to change with it. The…
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The Everyday GDPR Compliance Mistakes Putting Your Business at Risk and How Training Can Stop Them
By Tre Fears, Instructional Designer, Inspired eLearning Even seven years after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations continue to face fines or public exposure for data protection failures. This isn’t usually due to deliberate…
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Workplace Violence Prevention: Retailers Can’t Ignore the New York Retail Worker Safety Act
By Tre Fears, Instructional Designer, Inspired eLearning As of June 2, 2025, New York retailers are subject to mandatory training, policy, and notice requirements. Under the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (NYRSA), covered employers are now required to: Create a written policy…
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ForcedLeak: The $5 Exploit That Broke Salesforce’s AI Agents
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning In September 2025, security researchers at Noma Security disclosed a vulnerability that should make every AI developer pause. With a CVSS score of 9.4, firmly in “critical” territory, ForcedLeak demonstrated something…
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Automated Patch Management Defends Against Cyber Threats
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning Cybersecurity Awareness Month is about survival in the daily fight against cunning adversaries who exploit the smallest oversight. Passwords, MFA, and training are vital, but one of the core lessons this month highlights…
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Don’t Take the Bait: Why You Need Phishing Protection Training
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning For years, phishing has been a confidence game. A fake invoice, a spoofed login page, a carefully crafted message viewed in a rush. These tricks worked because people trusted too quickly. Today, phishers’ tricks are…
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MFA Implementation: Technology Complemented With Training
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become the baseline for modern security. Passwords alone are brittle, but when paired with a code, a token, or a biometric check, most brute-force attempts are rendered ineffective.…
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Password Security Training: The Survival Skill Every Workforce Needs
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning The path matters in the wild. A clear trail keeps you moving. Take a careless shortcut, and the undergrowth hides dangers, predators, and gnarly roots that expose you long before you know it. Passwords behave the same:…
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Your Cyber Secure World Starts Here: VIPRE’s Ready-to-Go Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 Field Kit
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning October 2025 marks the 22nd Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM), led by CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. What started in 2004 as a quiet call for cooperation has become a global echo. The message hasn’t…
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From Slides to Simulations: The Security Awareness Training Revolution Your Employees Actually Need
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer at VIPRE Phishing emails litter inboxes every day. Smishing texts buzz on phones. Vishing calls slip past filters. These threats are real, relentless, and getting smarter. Yet most employees still face them armed with nothing more than…
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Impostor Scams: What You Need to Know
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE Impostor scams are not a new phenomenon, but they are becoming increasingly sophisticated. With the rise of powerful generative AI, cybercriminals are leveraging these tools to enhance the scale and complexity of their attacks. Let’s…
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Vishing & Smishing: Understanding Modern Social Scams
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE Attackers today aren’t stopping at sophisticated email phishing campaigns, as successful as they may be. They are spreading their social engineering capabilities across many fronts. This means aggressively innovating their vishing and…
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Vishing Attacks: What SMB Owners Must Know
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE Phishing is no longer confined to suspicious emails. Today’s cybercriminals are launching increasingly sophisticated, multi-channel attacks that span email, text, social media, and even voice calls—a tactic known as vishing. These…
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SMiShing Threats: How Your Mobile Could Be an Attacker’s Gateway
by John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE Our mobile devices are the command centers of our daily lives. From managing bank accounts and work emails to navigating traffic and streaming entertainment, these devices do far more than make calls. Unfortunately, our deep…
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Using Security Awareness Simulation to Transform Employee Information Retention
By John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE Security awareness training (SAT) has come a long way in the last decade. The days of dry PowerPoint slides and one-size-fits-all eLearning courses are long gone. With advanced threats and determined adversaries, security training…
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SMiShing Red Flags: How to Spot Fake Text Messages
by John Trest, Chief Learning Officer, VIPRE A lot of attention has been poured into identifying a phishing attack when it hits your inbox, but what about when it hits your phone? A cell phone is a much more trusted, intimate way of communicating than an email, and a text…
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How Simulated Attacks Enhance Security Awareness
by John Trest, Product Solution Analyst, VIPRE Organizations of all sizes face a constant barrage of cyber threats. Yet, despite widespread investment in training programs, many businesses still struggle to close the gap between knowledge and action. Why? Because knowing what a…