Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team 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...
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