{"id":600793,"date":"2025-07-25T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=600793"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:41:43","slug":"prventi-makes-cybersecurity-training-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/600793-prventi-makes-cybersecurity-training-fun.html","title":{"rendered":"Prventi makes cybersecurity training fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cybersecurity training is important for every company to remain secure in the digital age.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It ensures that employees don\u2019t fall victim to scams and hackers \u2013 but many companies struggle to generate interest in cybersecurity training among their employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prventi.com\/features\/learning-gamification?utm_source=MyBroadband&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=June+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about how Prventi makes cybersecurity training fun.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This can be because employees consider the training to be boring, or they are intimidated by its technical nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prventi, one of South Africa\u2019s top cybersecurity companies, solves this through its innovative training methodology that involves gamification &#8211; making the entire process more engaging and fun for your employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We detail this fresh new approach to cybersecurity training, below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training made fun<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prventi has found that weaving elements of competition, recognition, and real-time feedback into cybersecurity awareness training provides a marked increase in engagement and knowledge retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To facilitate this gamification, Prventi\u2019s training programs include many systems commonly found in gaming and sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes a live leaderboard that lets employees compete for the top spot and gauge their performance against their peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good performance will also earn employees points, badges, and virtual coins, providing instant feedback and recognition for hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such rewards are handed out with every module completed, each challenge that is overcome, and every training threat that is neutralised &#8211; so it won\u2019t just be the select few highest performers earning all the rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees can then use their hard-earned coins to buy character skins, power-ups, and wallpapers to customise their user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another key mechanic that makes Prventi cybersecurity training fun is learning streaks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees will continue their learning streak for each defence boost completed and be inspired to maintain the streak \u2013 leading to faster and more enthusiastic learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The value of gamification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prventi offers short and impactful cybersecurity lessons that tackle one topic at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combined with the engaging format of the system, companies will see immediate returns with lower incident rates and, therefore, minimal organisational downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamification also cultivates a healthier and stronger security culture in your company as fun activities become second nature for your employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prventi.com\/features\/learning-gamification?utm_source=MyBroadband&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=June+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about how Prventi makes cybersecurity training fun.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prventi understands that cybersecurity training can be intimidating, and has taken steps to rectify this through gamification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341030,"featured_media":600794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28937],"tags":[15227,97236],"class_list":["post-600793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrynews","tag-cybersecurity","tag-prventi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600795,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600793\/revisions\/600795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}