Title: Ahoy Hacker News! I&#x27;m Ben, founder of Riot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryriot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryriot.com</a>), a tool that sends phishing emails to your team to get them ready for real attacks. It&#x27;s like a fire drill, but for cybersecurity.<p>Prior to Riot, I was the co-founder and CTO of a fintech company operating hundred of millions of euros of transactions every year. We were under attack continuously. I was doing an hour-long security training once a year, but was always curious if my team was really ready for an attack. In fact, it kept me up at night thinking we were spending a lot of money on protecting our app, but none on preparing the employees for social engineering.<p>So I started a side project at that previous company to test this out. On the first run, 9% of all the employees got scammed. I was pissed, but it convinced me we needed a better way to train employees for cybersecurity attacks. This is what grew into Riot.<p>For now we are only training for phishing, but our intention is to grow this into a tool that will continuously prepare your team for good practices (don&#x27;t reuse passwords for example) and upcoming attacks (CEO fraud is next), in a smart way.<p>Your questions, feedback, and ideas are most welcome. Would love to hear your war stories on phishing scams, and how you train your teams!
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