Security Mentor to Participate at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. - June 4, 2015 - PRLog -- Security Mentor (http://www.securitymentor.com/), a pioneer of innovative, effective security awareness training, today announced that the company is a Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2015, which will be held on June 8-11 in National Harbor, Maryland. As a Silver Sponsor, Security Mentorwill be hosting a booth (#218) where subject-matter experts will discuss the benefits of interactive, highly engaging, security awareness training.

“Data breaches have become commonplace and many of these breaches have initiated as attacks against the workforce. This demonstrates a clear need for effective, and engaging, security awareness training,” said Marie White, CEO and President, Security Mentor.  “It’s a very exciting time for Security Mentor as we are seeing growing demand for our security awareness training program that drives real behavior change. We look forward to showcasing our award-winning program at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit.”

In order to achieve success, security and risk leaders must embrace new approaches to digital business while maintaining a proven control architecture that mitigates enterprise risk. The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2015 provides attendees with best practices and strategies to maintain cost-effective security and risk programs in order to support digital business and drive enterprise success. The summit features five complete programs on IT Security, Risk Management and Compliance, Business Continuity Management, and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles. Each program offers a full track of analyst sessions, keynotes, roundtable discussions, case studies, workshops, and more.

Gartner attendees are invited to stop by the Security Mentor booth to learn how the company enables real, immediate behavior change by combining engaging, highly interactive training that employees love to take, with content-rich lessons that convey critical security information. For more information, visit the company’s website, follow the company on Twitter at @SecurityMentor and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/security-mentor). Join the conversation at the event on Twitter with the hashtag #GartnerSEC.

About Security Mentor

Security Mentor’s groundbreaking and award-winning security awareness training elevates security and compliance by transforming your workforce into security savvy employees. With only 10 minutes/month, our interactive, highly engaging lessons teach critical security skills in an easy-to-understand, fun format that drives real behavior change. The result: an engaged staff that values security.  Security Mentor’s training is available as a cloud-based service from Security Mentor with username/password authentication or Federated Single Sign-on (SSO), or as SCORM 1.2 compliant modules for use on an organization’s own Learning Management System).  Incorporated in 2008, Security Mentor has customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to local and state governments.  To learn more, request a demo at www.securitymentor.com.