Human risk and behavioral cybersecurity in LATAM

September 17, 2026 · 9 min

A compromised account can stay active for weeks. Learn the signals, why per-person risk scoring beats averages, and how to close the window before impact.

September 17, 2026 · 8 min

Changing the password is not enough. The first-hours steps to contain a leaked credential before it turns into a bigger incident.

September 9, 2026 · 7 min

Closing out an employee's departure is not HR paperwork. It is closing the door an attacker looks for when nobody is watching. A step-by-step guide.

September 3, 2026 · 6 min

Phishing simulations are legal in LATAM when you respect data-protection law, disclose the purpose and minimize data. A guide to framing it before you start.

September 3, 2026 · 8 min

A good pilot does not prove people finished a course, it proves their behavior changed under pressure. Here is how to design one and how to decide.

August 28, 2026 · 7 min

Four steps to shield the help desk MFA reset against social engineering, and how to validate that support actually withstands the deception.

August 28, 2026 · 9 min

The three signals behind a human risk score, how to capture the first picture in two weeks, and which baseline to compare against later.

August 25, 2026 · 9 min

The second factor is not broken, it is bypassed. The six ways an attacker gets past MFA without cracking anything, and what each reveals about behavior.

August 20, 2026 · 8 min

How the attacker's subscription model multiplies email phishing, and why the defense still lives in human behavior rather than in spotting typos.

August 20, 2026 · 7 min

Chile became the first country in the region to make human risk management a legal obligation. Here is what that means for companies across LATAM.

August 13, 2026 · 7 min

Measuring behavior change is not a slogan: it is a protocol with a window, a category, passing criteria, and a risk floor. Here is how to design each piece.

August 11, 2026 · 7 min

An email with no link or attachment, just a number to call. How callback phishing (TOAD) works, why it slips past filters, and what your team can do.

August 6, 2026 · 6 min

We gathered the verified 2026 figures on phishing, human factor, breach cost and market, each with its source, to cite without repeating loose numbers.

August 5, 2026 · 8 min

The human risk business case is not the cost of the course, it is the cost of the breach that does not happen. What numbers and metrics to show the board.

August 4, 2026 · 7 min

A simulation that humiliates teaches people to hide the slip, not report it. Here is how to introduce the practice without the team feeling trapped.

August 3, 2026 · 6 min

A generic template everyone spots measures pattern recognition, not behavior under attack. What actually makes a phishing simulation realistic.

August 3, 2026 · 7 min

A leaked credential leaves no trace on your network. What dark web monitoring is and how to know if your team is already exposed.

July 31, 2026 · 7 min

Authority, urgency, fear, curiosity, reward, trust and the wish to help: the seven human instincts phishing exploits to make a person click.

July 28, 2026 · 6 min

Email is still the main door and the other channels add to it, they do not replace it: a map of the seven vectors and the instinct each one exploits.

July 27, 2026 · 9 min

If your program can prove people completed the training but not that risk went down, it is a checkbox. These seven signs help you confirm it yourself.

July 27, 2026 · 7 min

A social engineering technique convinces an employee to copy a command and run it themselves. Here is how ClickFix and FileFix work.

July 24, 2026 · 8 min

Banning ChatGPT does not stop the habit, it hides it. What shadow AI is, how it differs from an AI agent, and what to watch in behavior.

July 22, 2026 · 8 min

Sending the same campaign to everyone measures exposure, not change. Personalize the scenario, correct on time, and validate the result with a retest.

July 21, 2026 · 6 min

Monthly for everyone, every two weeks for finance, leadership, HR and IT support. Set frequency by role without training people to spot the drill.

July 21, 2026 · 7 min

Passing the training module after falling for a phishing email proves nothing. Only putting the person back in the same situation proves the change.

July 17, 2026 · 7 min

A new hire already has access, does not know the protocols, and wants to impress. That window lasts weeks, and attackers know it better than HR does.

July 16, 2026 · 8 min

The question that matters most is not price or template count. It is how the vendor proves that someone who failed a simulation actually changed.

July 15, 2026 · 7 min

Ninety days is enough to go from zero to a program that measures conduct. Order matters more than tooling: start with who is exposed, not with the course.

July 14, 2026 · 5 min

It no longer counts who finished the course. It measures whether the person changes how they act against a deception. That is what the framework names.

July 14, 2026 · 5 min

The decision is not which modules to buy, it is whether they talk. When the engines stay silent, the leaked credential never steers the next simulation.

July 10, 2026 · 5 min

Price per employee tells you little on its own. Here are the criteria that separate a cheap fee from a program that actually reduces human risk.

July 8, 2026 · 7 min

Reporting beats falling for it, but warning is not the same as resisting. Only retesting proves the behavior actually changed.

July 7, 2026 · 5 min

The text message reaches the personal device, outside the email perimeter. That is where the employee trusts more and the company sees less.

July 6, 2026 · 7 min

Why approval-based MFA gives in to repetition and exhaustion, and what separates a real defense from a checked box against this pattern.

July 3, 2026 · 5 min

A 2026 guide to the HRM category for companies of 25 to 500 employees in LATAM. Nine platforms compared by what really decides: how they prove change.

July 3, 2026 · 5 min

A phone attack no email filter can stop: why the help desk is the target, and how to validate that people actually resist the pretext.

July 2, 2026 · 7 min

The native Microsoft 365 simulator is a solid starting point, not a human risk program. A scope comparison and the checklist a CISO should demand.

July 2, 2026 · 5 min

A frequently asked questions bank for security leaders in LATAM evaluating a human risk management program at midsize companies.

June 30, 2026 · 5 min

Finishing a course does not prove anyone stopped falling for a scam. The metric that shows change is retesting the behavior weeks later.

June 30, 2026 · 6 min

Generative emails, synthetic voice and fake video raise the quality of deception. Why filters fall short and how to prepare your teams.

June 30, 2026 · 6 min

The market is racing to police autonomous agents, but validating how people behave under a real attack is the problem almost no one is measuring.

June 30, 2026 · 5 min

The right KnowBe4 alternative is not the one with the biggest catalog: it is the one that proves an employee who fell for a trick is no longer vulnerable.

June 27, 2026 · 5 min

A QR code hides the link and moves the attack to the phone, past your filters. Prioritize by person, simulate real quishing and validate with a retest.

June 6, 2026 · 8 min

Artificial intelligence democratized sophisticated attacks, boards woke up to human risk, and cyber insurance became a catalyst. Three converging forces that change everything.

December 28, 2025 · 6 min

A market that keeps growing while peer reviewed evidence shows that completing training does not predict fewer real failures.

December 18, 2025 · 7 min

Security spending keeps growing while the human layer stays underfunded. A look at where the imbalance comes from and how to close it.