Microlearning
Training in short, specific doses delivered at the moment of the mistake. It uses the instant when a person is most receptive to learning.
Full definition
Microlearning is training delivered in short, specific and well-timed doses instead of long generic courses. Applied to cybersecurity, it means that whoever falls for a phishing simulation receives, within minutes, a short lesson about the exact deception they fell for.
Its strength is timing: right after the mistake, the person knows they failed, remembers the context and is receptive. The same lesson three months later, inside an annual course, competes with the day's agenda and connects to no concrete experience. A conversational format with validation questions works better than passive video.
Microlearning does not close the cycle on its own: it confirms the person understood the lesson, but only a later retest verifies that behavior changed.
Related terms
Retest
A new simulation of the same attack category, weeks after a failure and with a different template, to verify the person actually changed their behavior.
Security awareness
Programs that teach employees to recognize and report threats. Completing courses does not equal changed behavior: that is validated with a retest.
Phishing simulation
A controlled phishing attack a company sends to its own employees to measure who falls, for which kind of lure, and how often.
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Fensivo detects leaked credentials, simulates real attacks and validates with retests that behavior changed.