Cyber safety is crucial for employers because it protects their businesses from financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruptions caused by cyberattacks. It also helps maintain customer trust and ensures compliance with data protection regulations.
Designed to assess your general knowledge and understanding of computer security and online safety. Regardless of the size or type of organisation you work for, it’s important to understand why you might be vulnerable to cyber attack, and how to keep yourself safe. Candidates are presented with a variety of question styles including, true and false statements, question and answer, ranking, and multiple choice question styles.
Candidates are presented with 31 questions to complete in 20 minutes. The candidate’s responses are automatically marked and a point is awarded for each correctly answered question. Skipped questions or those that are not taken will result in no point being awarded.
This test is often used in corporate environments to assess and improve employee awareness around cyber threats like social engineering, secure password practices, and data protection. Especially those looking to improve their knowledge of online threats like phishing, scams, malware, and best practices for personal security.
Our Cyber Safety skills test can aid in reducing the effect of unconscious biases on your hiring decisions. With this test, a candidates suitability for the role will be evaluated based on the test results as their identity will be anonymised. This ensures that recruiters will not have access to any other information that could affect their judgement.
Through using skills assessments such as this, employers are able to develop a stronger cyber safety course plan for their employees. Practice tests are available with this assessment so employees can take the test several times and use this tool to learn new skills revolving around risk assessments and regulations.
Our tests are also a useful tool to reduce company costs. All of our psychometric tests, including our Cyber Safety skills test, are conducted online through our accessible platform. This makes it a cost efficient way for businesses to test and train their employees as there would be no need to hire out external instructors and travel to an external testing site.