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Technology, software, and automation enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and reduce costs. Artificial Intelligence, for example, can improve decision-making and minimize human error, giving companies a competitive edge.

However, technology also introduces vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella states, “Technology can be the great enabler, but it also creates opportunities for vulnerabilities.” The growing reliance on automation opens the door to cyber risks, requires new management skills, and makes cybersecurity training essential.

Movies and television often portray hackers conducting cyber-attacks using advanced technology. This makes for great theater. However, most successful breaches take advantage of something much simpler: a careless human. As Bruce Schneier, Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., says, “People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

What Defines Cybersecurity Training Excellence?

Cybersecurity Training for Employees is about creating threat awareness and a robust first line of defense. Well-constructed training provides detailed examples of current, new, and emerging threats, the most common forms of attack, and the potential damage a successful attack can cause.

In addition, effective Cybersecurity Training is delivered in an engaging and adaptable manner, providing employees the chance to learn, retain, and fail in a safe environment.

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Expedia Case Study

Impactful Customer Service Training

Expedia is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel.

Expedia needed to improve customer service skills for its call center agents that could provide them measurable performance in areas of customer service and destination knowledge. The need required an e-learning design and course interface with engaging scenarios and situations for learning about specific travel destinations that could be replicated.

After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the results are staggering with large increases in destination sales knowledge and customer service:

63% increase in overall destination knowledge

56% increase in knowledge in hotels/attractions

42% increase of destination layout knowledge

42% increase in ability to answer customer questions

Expedia's Staggering Results

Expedia needed to improve customer service skills for its call center agents that could provide them measurable performance in areas of customer service and destination knowledge

Agents expressed eagerness for more destination sales and customer service training. Not only did the agents feel better prepared to engage with customers on the phone, customer satisfaction increased exponentially, as did sales conversion.

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Cybersecurity Training for Employees Expertise

Our SAVVY program design and development approach is a significant process differentiator of Allen Interactions that leads to awesomely effective performance outcomes. Rather than applying an off-the-shelf development template, we typically spend two or more full days listening to you describe and define everything pertinent to training program development, such as:

  • Previous training programs, if any, that worked or didn’t and why.
  • Unique training objectives, including thwarting cyber-attacks and improving employee responses to cyber-attack tests.
  • Infrastructure resources supporting how we can reach your employees.
  • How you will measure, demonstrate, and report success.

At Allen Interactions, we design our Employee Cybersecurity Training solutions not just to teach but also to transform your employees into cybersecurity masters.

We harness the power of immersive technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and gamification to create engaging, interactive learning experiences. Combined with our proven methodologies, these innovative tools ensure your employees don’t become the cyber-attack vulnerability the bad actors seek.

Is an Allen Interactions' Training Solution Right for You?

Even if an organization doesn’t have extensive interconnections with the cloud or other networks, its systems are still vulnerable to attacks through employees, clients, and vendors who introduce malware and viruses via infected email attachments and corrupted files downloaded from thumb drives. No organization should ignore the threat of cyber-attacks and the financial and reputational damage a successful attack or breach represents. That means effective Cybersecurity Training, not just something like disseminating an informative booklet, is absolutely necessary.

How can Allen Interactions help my organization with Cyber Security Training for my employees?

Allen Interactions has led the interactive online training field for decades, developing new technologies and training methodologies along the way. Over that time, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations like yours use training to create workforces that excel in their roles, from front-line customer service to exceptional sales performance to mastery of industry-specific fundamentals.

As part of our growth as a customer-focused company, we have developed, refined, and proven a comprehensive process that ensures we understand your needs, develop needs-based and goal-driven learning solutions, and then implement them inside your organization, training staff so they can confidently and fearlessly manage the solution.

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Customer Testimonials

Allen Interactions created an extremely engaging, interactive sales process course, with complex interactions between sales associates and customers. This pilot resulted in some incredible results!

Kenneth Gregson

Director Variable Operations Learning & Performance, AutoNation

Customer Testimonials

Adults are looking for untraditional learning experiences. Coupled with innovations in core business strategies within, we had the perfect moment to create a seamless experience for the independent sales force with Allen Interactions.

Kathryn Hunt-Siwald

Manager, Sales Education Materials & Strategic Education, Mary Kay

Customer Testimonials

By incorporating fun, engaging content into the Penn Foster online learning experience offered by schools like Penn Foster, we belive our students will be better able to retain the information, not only for their exams, but to apply in the workforce and entirety of their careers as medical professionals.

Dara Warn

Chief Operating Officer, Penn Foster Education Group

How can Allen Interactions help implement Cyber Security Training?

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Why Work with Allen Interactions?

Our clients often say that we understand training development better than any other company they’ve met. We take that as high praise, indeed. But, we know that choosing a partner you’ll entrust to develop your mission-critical training solution requires us to demonstrate, to you and your team’s satisfaction, that an Allen Interactions eLearning Program will meet or exceed your expectations.

We encourage you to ask us (and everyone on your radar) to demonstrate capabilities in these critical areas:

Why Work With Allen Interactions

Lead with listening

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Proven track record

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Ability to customize a program

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Technology agnostic

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Scalable solutions

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Provide robust analytics

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Exceptional user interfaces

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Integration with your existing

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Support and training

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Quality, current, accurate, and

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Cost-effective with proven ROI

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