Control Risks and Google announce partnership for cybersecurity training in Brazil

A Control Risks, a global consultancy specialized in risk management for more than 30 years in Brazil, announced on Monday (26), a partnership to offer training sessions in account security for high-risk users in Brazil. 

The program will focus on audiences that often deal with sensitive information and are attractive targets for cybercriminals, such as government institutions, public officials and election campaigns, politicians, journalists, executives and NGOs, especially in a context where the country has recorded 60 billion attempts of cyber attacks in the past year, according to data from FortiGuard Labs, an intelligence and threat analysis laboratory. 

The announcement was made at Google headquarters in Sao Paulo. At the time, the platform also presented the project of the reform of the Institute of Technological Research (IPT), which will house the new Engineering Center and will also have the first space dedicated to assistive technologies in Latin America. 

Control Risks also presented the Advanced Protection Program and Project Shield, two Google initiatives aimed at strengthening the online security of individuals and organizations.

Lucas Silva, Director of Control Risks,highlighted the importance of the partnership: “Our goal is to provide training and support so that these most susceptible groups can protect their accounts and information against cyber attacks.We believe in the importance of education and awareness as a way to strengthen digital security in Brazil”.

During the event, the director of Research and Partnerships for Latin America at Google, Luciana Cordeiro, emphasized the relevance of collaborations with companies to educate the ecosystem about the cybersecurity tools already available, in addition to of course, constant improvement of mechanisms. “A education is a method of democratization of these tools, especially to groups more prone to virtual attacks”, he highlighted.

In 2023, X-Force saw attackers increasingly invest in operations to gain user identities with a 266% increase in information theft malwaretherefore, Silva explains that, at this first moment, the focus of the project is the advanced protection program focused on electoral campaigns.“Our goal is to provide electoral campaigns, state parties and organizations with the best practices and tools to protect their digital operations during and after the electoral period in Brazil”.

Control Risks will provide training courses on security key use and train the most vulnerable groups to use the protection tools and resources provided by Google.“Brazil is currently the second country in the world with the highest number of hacking attacks and we believe in education and awareness, especially in the face of the growing challenges in the cyber threat landscape, as ways to change this” scenario, he says.