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I've also never fallen for any of the phising emails the IT department sends to test me, my secret is almost never checking my email
My company sends at least one fake phishing email a week. They track stats for them on a security page and I wear it as a badge of honor that my report says 100% viewed and 0% reported.
My company makes you take a course of you fail one or if you ignore 4 or 5 so I have the highest reporting record of the company just because of how much I hate that course
I think they do that at my company too but in addition to not reporting phishing emails I have a personal rule that I don't do any "mandatory" training unless someone in my management chain specifically asks me to. My boss probably gets annoyed by that occasionally but you'd be surprised how much of that stuff I never get asked about.
Last year our CISO personally reached out to me and asked me to do the course that’s overdue. I was a little nervous for a second and decided to obey.
Yeah that's a good call. I don't push back when asked directly I just pretend I didn't see the emails. Most of the time it's fine but the boring security stuff is usually the one they get me on.
My guess? Their bonus was tied to 100% compliance and you were one of the last people to do the training.
Nice. My company ties the bonus payment to completing all the mandatory training. You get many reminders from HR when the bonus payment is approaching