It was a big sample group. The researchers examined nearly 20,000 employees at UC San Diego Health. People who got cybersecurity training were compared to those who got none.

Some people with training were slightly less likely to click on a phishing lure than the untrained. But some trained people were more likely to click.

“And we found that there was no relation to time and your cybersecurity annual training. And so that means even if you had just recently taken it, you are just as likely to click as someone who had taken it 8, 10, 12 months ago,” said Ariana Mirian, one of the co-authors of the study done at UC San Diego.

Phishing is done to gain access to your online information including passwords, banking information or medical records.

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