What do knowledge centres hidden below Romanian castles, knowledge mining, deepfakes, fight-scenes, on-screen kisses and AI supercomputers have in frequent? Safety consciousness coaching. Sure, severely – and that’s simply season six of KnowBe4’s The Inside Man. There’s lots extra (5 different seasons in actual fact) the place that got here from.
Sure, Mark Shepherd and co are again – and it’s extra explosive than ever. The Gurus have been invited to the season six premiere of The Inside Man final week in London, the place all 12 episodes have been screened. A extra intimate affair than the season 5 premiere (which you’ll read all about here), however one which measured up solely. It’s not typically that you just’re actively excited to spend the afternoon watching what are successfully (cleverly disguised) coaching movies.
Season six closely options AI, unsurprising because it’s the matter dominating the press (commerce and in any other case) in present instances. In Chapter 3, it’s famous that “AI is in every single place” however it’s “not large and scary” but it wants highly effective processes to assist it run. That is true. The presence of AI in our day by day lives is commonly underestimated, from instruments that assist us with productiveness to integrations inside our favorite apps and websites. After all, there’s a barely extra ‘at stakes’ stage of AI, involving knowledge assortment, dialog shaping and its predictive qualities. The present touches on the ethics of AI, together with possession and management. It acknowledges the nuances and the way some could attempt to harness it (and I’m sure someplace on the market it’s already occurring) for lower than agreeable causes.
However does it maintain up?
The Inside Man was created eight years in the past. It’s grown in scope (and price range), however it’s stayed true to cyber and actual life hacks. The artistic forces behind the present (Wealthy Leverton, Director of Content material, Jim Shields, sequence director and founder, and Rob McCollum, sequence author, all from Twist & Shout, a KnowBe4 Firm), have a tough line to toe: leisure vs. schooling. Every episode should embrace studying moments – and the present should ‘pull’ folks in direction of greatest apply (as a substitute of pushing them into it).
The Inside Man is a sequence that’s rolled with the punches and advanced with the instances, which is difficult when network-quality exhibits take a very long time to make and cybersecurity as an business strikes so quick. But, the author, Rob McCollum, aided by KnowBe4’s crack crew of evangelists (who ‘futureproof’ every episode), appears to be on the heart beat with the cyber happenings of as we speak and, crucially, tomorrow. Not as soon as does the sequence really feel passé or outdated in idea. Miraculous, maybe, when the dialog du jour strikes so ceaselessly.
Is it crucial?
In brief, sure. Some 20,000 clients have considered no less than one episode, with over 20m completions. Some organisations even maintain watch events for every episode, with job switchers demanding new orgs signal as much as the platform to get their repair. The present additionally has a cult following of followers, with Halloween costumes, truffles, dissertations and ‘world’s largest fan competitions’ amongst a number of the issues followers do to indicate their appreciation of the present. However what does this imply for companies?
In accordance with the creators, the sequence gives the context (the ‘why’) for KnowBe4’s wider studying catalogue. It exhibits that the cyber points realized elsewhere on the platform (and there are over 2000 items of content material to study from) are very a lot attainable to expertise within the ‘actual world’, which, in flip, makes folks extra and engaged. Director Jim Shields famous that this might have as soon as been the ‘water cooler’ second, even when that sounds absurd for consciousness coaching.
What The Inside Man does greatest is storytelling, which, in spite of everything, underpins all good consciousness coaching. It’s ‘sticky’ in its strategy, with numerous contact factors for viewers to recollect points introduced. It’s a narrative about ‘discovered’ household, which, I suppose, is type of what work is. Emotional attachment to this household is what the opposite stuff (consciousness coaching) is hooked onto. What’s extra, every episode is tagged with studying factors (within the type of assets and movies), offering safety leaders with a smorgasbord of assets from which they will decide and select what and once they use. The ability to withhold new episodes shouldn’t be taken evenly although!
Verdict?
It’s notoriously exhausting to get buy-in from workers on safety consciousness coaching, however The Inside Man could have groups chasing your IT head down the hall and asking for extra (true story, apparently). So, should you like your cybersecurity consciousness coaching movies with a facet of character improvement, this one’s for you.
The Inside Man season six is now obtainable worldwide within the KnowBe4 ModStore. It’s been dubbed in six languages and subtitled in 35.
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