New training on using AI safely and spotting AI-powered threats arrives this Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Attackers are moving faster than ever, weaponizing newly discovered vulnerabilities before defenders can patch them and building new types of malware that signature-based defenses can’t catch.

Thousands of organizations around the world rely on our Aurora® Superintelligence Platform, a best-in-class agentic security operations center (SOC), to protect against these threats. It delivers 15x faster case resolution while minimizing the likelihood of a successful attack, but that’s only part of the equation. One of the most dangerous attack surfaces that AI-powered threats exploit is the human element: a person deciding whether to trust an email, a voice, or an AI tool’s answer. Even in this advanced technological threat landscape, your people remain the last line of defense against AI threats.

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re giving organizations more ways to hold that line. We’ve launched a new training course to help guide employees on how to use AI safely and spot AI-powered threats. And for this month only, eligible new customers can get a free year of Aurora Security Awareness and Training.

The Gap Your Employees Now Stand In

Our 2026 AI & Cybersecurity Trends Report found that AI is now the top cybersecurity concern among security leaders, cited by 35% of respondents, ahead of second-ranked ransomware at 25%.

That’s because AI is helping attackers find vulnerabilities faster than ever and shortening the time it takes to exploit each one. Attackers adopt every new AI capability the moment it appears, with no safety testing or regulatory oversight to slow them down.

It’s also producing attacks that have never existed before. Arctic Wolf Labs’ analysis of AI-generated malware found that 39% of the samples it collected went undetected by signature-based antivirus solutions, evidence that a meaningful share of what’s circulating now is structurally new rather than a faster version of an old attack. Every one of those capabilities, new or familiar, eventually lands in an employee’s inbox or on their screen, often before security teams even know it exists.

Closing that gap is exactly what the two new modules inside Aurora Security Awareness and Training are built to do.

Using AI the Right Way

Employees are already using generative and agentic AI tools every day, with or without a policy telling them how. The risk is rarely the technology itself, but rather the ungoverned use of it: an employee pasting sensitive data into a public chatbot; another trusting an AI answer without checking it; a third adopting a tool no one on the security team approved.

The new AI Basics and Acceptable Use module, Prompted, covers this ground directly, including how AI tools actually work, why outputs carry hidden bias, and why the tools your team is allowed to use for work matter as much as how they use them.

Recognizing When AI Is Being Used Against You

Cybercriminals are using the same AI tools your employees rely on, and the attacks that come out the other side are now even harder to spot. Phishing emails now read more naturally, and voice messages and video calls can be faked more convincingly than ever. Even the reconnaissance behind an attack now happens at machine speed, making each attempt more personalized than the last.

The proof is already in our own data. When employees learn to recognize phishing attempts before they click, incidents drop. Organizations that fully deployed Aurora Security Awareness and Training saw a 36% decrease in phishing-related incident tickets within four months.

The new When Cybercriminals Use or Manipulate AI module gives employees the other half of the picture, covering how attackers manipulate AI tools, how to spot AI-generated fraud, and why following a reporting process beats relying on gut instinct alone.

Together, these two modules are designed to strengthen that last line of defense, the human element.

What’s Available This October

In addition to the new AI training course, we’ve also launched a training series specifically for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Four weekly sessions cover the habits that stop the most common attacks: among them strong passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), phishing recognition, and software updates.

Eligible new customers can claim a free year of Aurora Security Awareness and Training, our human risk solution designed to reduce phishing clicks and provide relevant microlearning content that will help develop a culture of security.

If your organization is ready to close the gap AI has opened, contact us to learn more and get a demo today. Learn more about Aurora Security Awareness and Training.

Terms and eligibility requirements apply to activate the offer, so ask your account team for details.

This blog is provided for informational purposes only. It reflects general industry perspectives and practices and is not intended to represent a guarantee, assurance, or measure of performance. Actual results, outcomes, and capabilities vary by organization, environment, and implementation.

This post reflects the author’s views as of the publication date and contains forward-looking statements and opinions about technology trends. Actual outcomes may differ based on attacker behavior, customer environments, and broader market and regulatory developments.