{"id":29238,"date":"2019-10-01T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T09:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=29238"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:03:39","slug":"south-africa-security-awareness-company-wins-international-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/10\/01\/south-africa-security-awareness-company-wins-international-award\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa security awareness company wins international award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa based Popcorn Training\n\u2013 a KnowBe4 company \u2013 has been recognised as a Gold Winner in the Security\nAwareness category for the 11th Annual 2019 Golden Bridge Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company was also awarded silver prize in the Security Awareness Computer-based Training category in the 14th Annual Network Products Guide\u2019s 2019 IT World Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards programme encompasses the world\u2019s best in organisational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, best deployments, product management, public relations, marketing, corporate communications, international business, and customer satisfaction programmes from every major industry in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners will be honoured in San Francisco on Monday,\nOctober 28 during the annual Red Carpet SVUS Awards ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe award was\nfor our \u2018StandUps 4 Security\u2019 series where we produced security awareness\nmodules in collaboration with South African comedians, inspired by a real-life\nevent when a comedy club was hacked,\u201d said Anna Collard, CEO, Popcorn Training.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe worked\nwith exceptional comedic local talent to tell locally relevant security stories\nand the fact that these have become internationally recognised and acknowledged\nis a huge achievement for us.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa based Popcorn Training \u2013 a KnowBe4 company \u2013 has been recognised as a Gold Winner in the Security Awareness category for the 11th Annual 2019 Golden Bridge Awards. The company was also awarded silver prize in the Security Awareness Computer-based Training category in the 14th Annual Network Products Guide\u2019s 2019 IT World Awards. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":29239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,275,19,9059,13,262],"tags":[5475,11243,11241,11244,11076,5473,11245,7745,11240,11242,453,11246],"class_list":["post-29238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-regional-news","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-anna-collard","tag-annual-network-products-guide","tag-golden-bridge-awards","tag-it-world-awards","tag-knowbe4","tag-popcorn-training","tag-red-carpet-svus-awards","tag-san-francisco","tag-security-awareness","tag-security-awareness-computed-based-training","tag-south-africa","tag-standups-4-security"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29243,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions\/29243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}