We’re very excited to announce the addition of audiocasts, a brand new content material sort now accessible within the ModStore to assist strengthen your safety tradition via a fascinating audio format.
This new content material sort takes benefit of the favored media format, podcasts. Audiocasts are totally different from podcasts (thus the marginally totally different identify) in that they don’t seem to be accessible by way of a podcast app however will be assigned as obligatory or non-obligatory coaching like all of our different fashionable content material varieties.
They’re learning-focused, moderately than simply for leisure, and quite a bit shorter than your common podcast – most are beneath ten minutes. They monitor completion (identical to our video modules) when somebody has listened to the episode and never simply fast-forwarded to the top. Options embody a full, built-in transcript and our customary entry for keyboard-only controls.
Audiocasts will be consumed by your learners as a part of a coaching marketing campaign on their pc or cellular system, and we extremely suggest the expertise on the KnowBe4 Learner App. Encouraging your learners to take heed to Audiocasts by way of the app is a good way to get began with the app if you have not skilled it but.
To start out out with, our world publishing groups have launched 22 Audiocasts that at the moment are accessible within the ModStore. That is only the start although as we are going to proceed to offer contemporary content material for this new content material sort, identical to we do for all of our different content material varieties. You’ll find them by looking out by Content material Kind utilizing the dropdown within the ModStore and deciding on Audiocasts (like pictured under).
As typical, our groups have completed an awesome job of supplying you with totally different experiences and choices. The KnowBe4 publishing group created a brand new sequence that showcases “hack-proof habits” for on a regular basis cyberdefense and affords sensible insights into creating a safe tomorrow. The sequence launches with a real-life story of an worker who efficiently recognized and thwarted a WhatsApp phishing try.
For these of you who’ve Diamond degree of KSAT, The Safety Consciousness Firm has created a number of journalistic-style episodes that observe investigator Silas Cahill as he uncovers the gripping story of an organization’s battle with ransomware, providing cybersecurity classes via wealthy audio and dramatic storytelling to assist your customers perceive vital ideas.
The Twist & Shout group, primarily based within the UK, has created story-based episodes about two investigators who retrace the steps of a dramatized hacking assault – primarily based on true tales. It has a “true crime” podcast really feel, and like all of our Audiocasts, it has classes and studying factors in-built. These episodes embody excessive manufacturing worth and highly effective storytelling from the makers of The Inside Man, Safety Snapshots, and extra.
The Popcorn group, primarily based in South Africa, has created a sequence known as EncryptED. It options Andy, a former white-hat hacker turned guide who serves up digital safety knowledge with a beneficiant aspect of wit and pop jokes. The EncryptED sequence presently consists of 5 episodes and might be expanded quarterly all through 2025. Will probably be accessible in each English for the US and for Nice Britain using native voiceover expertise.
The exploqii group, primarily based in each Germany and Japan, has created a gripping four-part cybercrime sequence in German, English and Japanese, primarily based on a fictional true-crime story. It examines a devastating cyberattack on a serious hospital. That includes an skilled cybersecurity skilled in every episode, the sequence explores how hackers endangered human lives via refined phishing assaults and ransomware, culminating in a tense extortion try.
The El Pescador group in Brazil has created the “Safety Gossip” sequence. Enhance your group’s safety tradition with these partaking, bite-sized studying modules that ship vital safety classes via relatable office eventualities. It’s good for brand new worker onboarding, common safety consciousness coaching, and reinforcing present safety insurance policies. A number of episodes are coming all through the rest of 2025 and might be accessible in English, Portuguese for Brazil, and Spanish for Latin America.
Search for extra episodes being added to those sequence in addition to totally different spins on Audiocasts to be launched within the months to come back. We might love to listen to from you on what subjects you want to see lined sooner or later in addition to any artistic concepts you might have for future episodes of Audiocasts. Tell us what you consider this new content material providing!
