Award-Winning, Interactive, Highly Engaging Lessons Drive Real Employee Behavior Change

Pacific Grove, Calif., June 8, 2016 – Security Mentor, a pioneer of innovative security awareness training that drives real behavior change, today announced that the company is a Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2016, which will be held on June 13-16 in National Harbor, Maryland. As a Silver Sponsor, Security Mentor will be hosting a booth (#520) where subject-matter experts will discuss the benefits of interactive, highly engaging, security awareness training.

“Security incidents have become commonplace and many of these incidents have either been initiated as attacks against employees, or caused by employee errors. This establishes the clear need for interactive and engaging security awareness training,” said Marie White, CEO and President, Security Mentor. “At Security Mentor, we continue to see growing interest in our industry-leading security awareness training program because it does what our competitors cannot do; that is driving actual employee behavior change by combing our pioneering delivery model with engaging, interactive training. Our cutting-edge training model of 10-minute, highly interactive lessons delivered monthly, has changed the way global organizations conduct their security education process and we look forward to showcasing our award-winning program at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit.”

In order to achieve success, security and risk leaders must embrace new approaches to digital business while maintaining a proven control architecture that alleviates enterprise risk. The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit provides attendees with best practices and strategies to maintain cost-effective security and risk programs in order to support digital business and drive enterprise success. The comprehensive 2016 agenda addresses the latest security threats, flexible new security architectures, governance strategies, the expanding role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and more.

Gartner attendees are invited to stop by the Security Mentor booth to learn how they company’s truly

effective security awareness training drives real, immediate behavior change by combining engaging,

highly interactive training that employees love to take, with content-rich lessons that convey

critical security information. For more information, visit the company’s website, follow the company on Twitter at @SecurityMentor and on LinkedIn. Join the conversation at

the event on Twitter with the hashtag #GartnerSEC.

About Security Mentor

Security Mentor’s groundbreaking and award-winning security awareness training elevates security and compliance by transforming your workforce into security savvy employees. With only 10 minutes/month, our interactive, highly engaging lessons teach critical security skills in an easy-to-understand, fun format that drives real behavior change. The result: an engaged staff that values security. Security Mentor’s training is available as a cloud-based service from Security Mentor with username/password authentication or Federated Single Sign-on (SSO), or as SCORM 1.2 compliant modules for use on an organization’s own Learning Management System (LMS). Incorporated in 2008, Security Mentor has customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to local and state governments. To learn more, view our two-minute introductory video or request a demo at www.securitymentor.com.

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