Just the FAQs

How’s all that fear-driven, “no ''-based communications working out for Cyber Security teams so far? Exactly! We noticed a lot of the messaging around safety, in general, is changing.

We know that humor, used in the right way at the right time, is a great way to get employee attention and interest.

Right now, those are the keys to the kingdom for learning. We’ve backed up our funny video content with serious cyber and L&D competency models, learning objectives, self-assessments, and quizzes- it’s not just fuzz and fur around here.

Our approach is built around two key concepts:

1.) Your company's ability to adapt to a rapidly changing threat landscape, and the human element, both the psychology and culture that hackers exploit as well as the behavior changes you need to see at your organization. Having new, fresh, and engaging content, all the time is the best way to build a continual stream of cyber awareness. 

2.) Learning about these critical topics shouldn’t be a one-time thing; it needs to be reinforced, through courses and touchpoints, in order to be effective in moving the needle on key security baselines.

Additionally, in the new economy, with high employee turnover or the use of contractors (the ‘gig’ economy), it’s important to balance a steady course of the basics to get everyone on the same page, quickly.

We believe in people being their full and integrated selves at work, so this means having fun at work and being part of a productive positive culture. We ran studies using humans, and standard 2D animation, but we never got to a level of ‘love’ with those. Our fuzzballs are used as a mechanism for attention. They are abstract (allowing them to exist in a world without rules, thus letting us do things to them that are illegal to do on humans), and they can be the vehicles for showing behavior and illustrating policy issues without associated guilt or shame. 

Our question to you: What do you think is more effective for behavior change- a long email on the company backup policy, or a quick funny video showing a puppet dropping a laptop and suffering the consequences in a humorous way?

We don’t *love* the word “E-Learning”. We’re building an experience that does use an LMS backend to give the structure and analytics needed to show learner progress, knowledge acquisition, and as a platform. But the one thing our solution removes is those really dull e-learning ‘modules’. Sure, they scale and are dead cheap to roll out, but they aren’t effective in driving awareness or culture, at depth and at scale. 

We think this part of engagement and L&D is not fit for the times, so we invested all of our energy into creating content and learning strategies (I.E. micro-content, learner autonomy, video-driven) that are forward-looking, not rearview mirror. Our security culture-building tools and cultural assessments will help keep the CISO and Infosec staff aware of their own digital culture.

Heck yeah! Badges, contests, points, all baked in. Our gamification goes further than most; badges are nice, but swag and real prizes are better.

Connect to our storefront and either use our swag or for enterprise clients, insert your own. The social aspect of gamification is also on our platform to maximize cultural change. Functionality such as leaderboards, knowledge champions, rating, and social? Just plug in and go.

Is this where I'm supposed to dab?

We know this is an integral part of the circle of learning, so we partner with top service providers and can deliver an integrated experience if  you are looking for best-in-class security awareness and a top phishing tool. Just give us a call, we'll show  you how it works. 

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• NOTE: While We are hip, we don’t accept BitCoin, yet. 

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Well, technically.

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TLDR; 

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