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Roadmap

In addition to German and English, the Phishing Attack Simulator is now also available in Spanish. Switching to a different language is easy: simply go to your profile and adjust the language settings.

The new PAS feature allows our partners to create their own login templates, host them and incorporate them into our application. This gives them even more flexibility to create customised attack scenarios.

From now on, IYS’ partners will be able to create their own login pages, straightforward and flexible. The advantage: our partners can now provide even more customised attack scenarios to their clients.

Use the ‘sign up as’ feature to view your clients’ profiles. This allows our partners to provide support and gain insight into important key performance indicators – to offer even more security.

We are proud to present to you our new website. Experience Increase Your Skills’ web presence with a modern and user-friendly design that offers you a clear overview of our products and services.

From now on you can log into the PAS using an LDAP account. Thanks to the protocol that is used to manage and query directory services, this is now a very simple and straightforward process.

With the start of the new year, we also celebrate the premiere of our new promotional video. The animation is about three minutes long and offers exciting insights into our Full-Service Awareness Platform.

Logging into the PAS has become even easier thanks to the new SSO feature. It improves the user-friendliness of the Phishing Attack Simulator, saves time, and reduces the risk of password problems.

The Sächsischer Digitalpreis is awarded to companies that give new impetus to the use of digital solutions through applying modern and innovative technologies. IYS secured first place with the KOMM-STARTER®.

The PAS features for editing one’s own profile as well as the users of the platform have received a makeover. The new design makes it even easier to use the vast array of available features.

Thanks to the new release, various templates from our Phishing Attack Simulator are now available to our clients and partners in additional languages: they are also provided in French, Spanish, and Turkish.

IYS receives the Top Company Award 2022 from the job review platform kununu. This quality label is awarded to companies with a top rating. Only about 5% of the employers listed there qualify for this label.

Thanks to the support we have received from Frank Stummer, Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen, zwei.7 Holding GmbH and adesso ventures, we are well-prepared for the series A financing round that lies ahead.

The Reporting and Analytics Dashboard of our Phishing Attack Simulator now shows your company’s progress at one glance. What is more, you can now benefit from numerous tool-tips for more ease of use.

In order to make the Phishing Attack Simulator more secure, we have added two-factor authentication by default. 2FA is crucial to protect data and achieve an even higher security level for the profiles.

With our new awareness course that focuses on data protection in the healthcare sector, we have developed a product that is tailor-made for the specific requirements of healthcare professionals.

To ensure data protection and security at the highest possible level, we have migrated to a new ISO 27001 and C5 certified data centre in Germany. We now offer our services without third-country exports.

The ECSO label is awarded to companies that meet the indispensable baseline security requirements of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) for the procurement of secure ICT products and services.

Our partner programme enables companies to easily add our full-service awareness platform to their own portfolio, training clients on their own – effortlessly and without complicated implementation procedures.

With our Komm-Starter, we have created a compact package with the aim to support local governments. Reliable data protection and optimum information security increase the security level significantly.

Our employees can now spend up to three months every year working from anywhere in Europe. And what is more, in our company, ‘full-time’ means 35 instead of 40 hours of work a week – at full pay.

It is now possible to use our Phishing Attack Simulator not only for emails, but also to send text messages to mobile devices. This enables you to provide even more customised training to your employees.

The latest financing round is led by Montan-Ventures-Saar GmbH. In addition, current investors co-invested in this round to ensure that Increase Your Skills will experience continued growth.

We are evolving, and so are our courses. So it was time to give our first awareness course a new coat of paint and ensure that we provide the most up to date information on data protection matters.

With the launch of the new Phishing Attack Simulator, we are evolving into a next-generation full-service awareness platform. This important tool helps employees to identify and respond to phishing attacks.

To help reach more employees than ever, we are now offering our hotel data protection course in English language format, offering important information on data protection and the challenges of the GDPR.

Our new online awareness course on "Data Protection in Local Government" has now been launched. It is specifically for employees in local government who work with the personal data of citizens.

Many new features have been added to the reporting tool. Users can now benefit from options such as *.csv download, bundled certificate download via *.pdf, extensive filter functions and display of departments.

Working from home is in demand more than ever. Our new home office information security course prepares employees for all current dangers and threats to information security specifically for remote work.

We now offer a new online awareness course on information security. It provides the necessary training to prepare employees for all current threats and dangers within the field of information security.

In the latest round of financing, Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen brought in fresh capital for further market penetration. The investment round was lead by TGFS, with various private investors also joining in.

Increase Your Skills is proud to announce that we are now a member of the Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand e.V. (BITMi), a leading trade association exclusively for medium-sized IT companies in Germany.

The GDPR presents some unique challenges to the hotel industry. Our latest data protection course fully prepares employees using animations, sample documents, quizzes and useful practical tips.

We now offer a new data protection course on data protection for car dealerships to ensure that employees within the automotive industry are aware of the increased data protection requirements.

We now provide our clients with an e-learning reporting dashboard that lets them keep track of all the important KPIs. This allows clients to easily measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.

Increase Your Skills is proud to announce that we are now a member of the GDD (Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit e.V.). The GDD is one of the leading data protection organisations in Germany.

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen provide equity capital to technology-oriented founders to support them during the seed and startup phase. They are now investing in Increase Your Skills GmbH.

Many new features have been added to the reporting tool. Users can now benefit from options such as .csv download, bundled certificate download via .pdf, extensive filter functions and display of departments.