Human Error is Still Your Biggest Cyber Risk

For enterprise HR leaders managing workforce cyber risk

HR leaders shape how employees recognize risk and make safer decisions at scale.

Across a large workforce, employees make cybersecurity decisions many times a day, often without recognizing them as such. Something as routine as a hasty email response or unauthorized use of AI tools can expose an organization to security, operational, and compliance risk in ways that escalate quickly. At enterprise scale, what starts as a small oversight can become a board-level problem. And in 2026, the threat environment has shifted: AI-generated phishing and deepfake attacks are now sophisticated enough to fool even experienced, security-conscious employees. 

Meanwhile, the compliance bar is rising. Frameworks like NIS2, HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the NY SHIELD Act, and Australia’s Cyber Security Act, alongside NIST and ISO 27001 expectations, increasingly call for training that is documented, effective, and behavior-changing, not a once-a-year checkbox. 

HR leaders shape how employees recognize risk and make safer decisions at scale. Join Traliant’s Cybersecurity Attorney and Chief Learning Officer for the compliance case on why cybersecurity awareness training must evolve in 2026, along with a first-hand look at what engaging, defensible, story-driven training looks like across a global workforce. 

What you’ll learn: 

• Why employee behavior remains one of the most significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities an organization faces 
• The workplace situations most likely to lead to preventable incidents, including how AI-driven tactics like deepfakes, voice cloning, and shadow AI are reshaping the threat landscape 
• What 2026 compliance frameworks like NIS2 and HIPAA, alongside standards like NIST and ISO 27001, expect from a defensible awareness program 
• What HR and compliance leaders should evaluate when assessing training effectiveness, engagement, and defensibility 
• How organizations can reinforce secure decision-making beyond the annual training cycle 

Plus, a first look at The Contender, Traliant’s new cinematic, TV-style cybersecurity solution, including a library of 20 two-minute micro-reels built for ongoing, workforce-wide reinforcement. See how a connected cast and a dramatic storyline turn mandatory training into something employees across the organization actually remember. 

Earn SHRM and HRCI credit for attending.

About the Speakers 

John Brushwood, Compliance Counsel at Traliant and cybersecurity attorney

Shelby Cooney, Chief Learning Officer at Traliant