Custom Cybersecurity Training
Most security awareness training is forgettable because it's generic — stock slides about phishing that could apply to any company, delivered by someone who's never seen your environment and won't be around when the real test comes. I build training differently: around your actual risks, your actual incidents when there have been any, and the actual decisions your people need to make correctly, not a compliance checkbox.
What "custom" actually means
It means I look at who's in the room before I decide what to teach. Engineers need something different from finance staff who approve wire transfers, who need something different from executives who are personally targeted by spear phishing and business email compromise. It means using real examples relevant to your industry instead of generic "a prince emails you" phishing samples everyone's seen a hundred times. And it means tying the training to what's actually happened or what's realistically likely to happen to your organization, so people walk away understanding why this matters to them specifically, not just that they're required to sit through it.
How I build a session
I start by understanding your actual risk profile and, where relevant, what's already gone wrong — a past phishing incident, a social engineering attempt, a close call with a fraudulent payment request. From there I build content around realistic scenarios your team would actually face: how a convincing phishing email targeting your industry looks, what a pretext call to your help desk sounds like, how business email compromise plays out against companies that process payments the way you do. I'd rather run people through a scenario they have to think their way out of than lecture at them for an hour.
For teams with specific technical responsibilities — developers, IT staff, incident responders — I go deeper into the skills they actually need: secure coding patterns relevant to what they build, or how to recognize and escalate a real incident instead of sitting on it. This works as a one-time session or an ongoing program, depending on what your team needs and how fast your risk profile is changing.
Who this is for
Organizations whose last training was a generic online module nobody remembers, companies that have had a real incident and want their next training to actually address it, and teams that need role-specific training rather than one-size-fits-all content.
Tell me who needs training and what you're worried about, and let's build something that actually sticks.