Hello,
I’m Guy Huntington, one of the co-founders of Train in a Flash. I’d like to tell you about why we developed Train in a Flash and our perspective on how it fits into enterprise security training.

Two years ago, while I was walking, I thought about how poorly trained I had been in several large Fortune 500 enterprises on security awareness. Enterprises, while wanting to train their workers better, weren’t going to take their people off their job to do it. I thought that traditional computer based training also wouldn’t work because it was pushing too much boring information to people, who really didn’t care all that much about security, and it took hours to complete all the modules.

I then came to the thought that a series of one to four-minute programs for workers using the browser at their desk, using multi-media, could quickly “stitch across the worker’s forehead” a couple of key points that they were likely to remember. I wanted to brand this as if the training was produced by the enterprise, in the language of the worker, at a low price point. My last thought was to use Adobe’s Flash product that is installed on over 90% of the world’s browsers. Two years later, welcome to Train in a Flash!

We have developed, with our customers, 24 Flash programs that address most key areas of IT security as well as privacy and privacy breach processes. For only 975 you get a professionally developed, visual and voice over, enterprise branded, 1 to 4 minute program that ends with local contact information and links to your intranet for more information, in 11 different languages. There is no user license. Therefore, for 975 you can show it to as many workers as you’d like. You simply take the Flash files we send you, upload to your intranet and you’re good to go.

To achieve these low prices points, we only offer to customize the program in a fixed way. Thus you provide us with your enterprise logo, how to pronounce your enterprise name or acronym, local contact department and or names, email, phone and intranet address. Then we get to work and in 5-7 business days produce the program for you in the language you’ve selected.

In the current economic times, we see further increases on the attacks to enterprises while their security and training budgets are being shredded. We believe that our products are part of designing a cost effective enterprise risk reduction solution.

Our products are not in-depth security training. They are awareness training. We are aiming to effectively raise worker’s security awareness, in a very short time, at an attractive enterprise price point.

We also think that in many countries and states, privacy training is now a regulatory compliance demand. Many privacy laws state that workers need to be trained on determining what information the laws apply to and the processes for handling the information and/or when a breach has occurred. We have developed two generic products that address this.

Our products will please 80% of the enterprises security awareness needs. There will be some enterprises however that want words changed, or have different processes. We can develop customized products for you.

I’d like to hear from you re: your reaction to our products, things you like, don’t like or want programs developed for. Please contact me at guy@traininaflash.com.

Regards,

Guy Huntington, President
Huntington Ventures Ltd.