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1. I've talked with a lot of companies (Stripe for example) who do that internally and it takes a tremendous amount of time to set up.

2. For now attacks are very generic, but will soon be sector-based and department-based.

3. Yes for sure it's probably worth adapting the pace of the attacks depending on the level of the employees.

Thanks for the kind words!

Most of them target big companies. It makes a very different product.

I have a fun story with Wombat: I tried to use the product in my previous company (100 employees), had 4 different calls, with 4 different sales persons, during 2 months. At the end they just forgot about me.

1. There's an option to hide the names of the employees. It would replace all the names with random animal name + a color. It's great if you don't want to know which employees are falling for attacks.

2. I love the idea to actually make the employees create their own attacks, but seems a bit hard to do and pretty much time consuming for a company.

Definitely bad timing. My experience with names: they are never good enough.

What I look for in a name:

1. If I say it out loud, you know how to write it.

2. If I say it out loud today, you remember it tomorrow.

On that 2 criteria, Riot works quite well I think.

YES you did!

I called them just right after that, and I have to say they've been great so far. We agreed I would pay for a dedicated IP, and they now fully support Riot. And having a dedicated IP is actually better, because you can now remove the unexpected warning on Gmail.

Since everyone is moving to remote right now, hackers are enjoying the overall disorganization of companies. I've seen a growing number of phishing attacks for the past few weeks.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a major data leak caused by COVID-19 in the coming days.

PS: great username by the way.

Great question!

1. From Gophish: you need to be technical and you need at least a week off to prepare the attacks. With Riot, you can be sending attacks in a matter of minutes.

2. From Knowbe4, …: those are products made for enterprise companies, that are trying somehow to adapt to smaller companies. Riot is doing the opposite: it was built with smaller companies in mind.

Overall, I think there's a huge need today for product-centric cybersecurity companies, where most of the big players are sales-centric companies.

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I'm actually wondering the opposite: why should there be transaction fees? I thought Bitcoin had no necessary transaction fee.