The best technical controls won't help if someone in your team clicks a malicious link or doesn't know what to do when the SIEM lights up. We train people — from baseline awareness to realistic incident response exercises on a cyber range.
They start with a click, an opened attachment, or a phone call from someone pretending to be IT. That is exactly what no firewall can stop.
Numbers vary by report and year — but they all say the same thing: people and processes decide how much an attack hurts.
First we build baseline awareness across the whole company. Then we train the team that will respond when, despite all the training, something still slips through.
Security awareness built into daily work — no boring slide decks, no "tick the course" exercises. Real situations, regular refreshers, measurable results.
Passwords, MFA, data protection, working outside the office, social engineering. Format tailored to industry and the team's technical level — from non-technical staff to IT.
We send controlled phishing messages to the team and measure who clicks. Right after a campaign — a short focused micro-course for people who fell for it. We repeat in cycles; click rates typically drop noticeably after a few iterations.
Short sessions on a specific topic: ransomware, deepfakes, CEO fraud, secure document sharing, AI and ChatGPT at work. Great as an add-on to general awareness.
A starter kit for new hires — what they must know in their first week. Available as e-learning or as a live session.
A separate track for the board and managers — legal accountability (NIS2, GDPR), targeted attacks (BEC, whaling), making decisions under pressure during an incident.
We go beyond email. We simulate phone calls, dropped USB sticks, attempts at physical entry. This reveals where the real gaps are — often not where you'd expect.
A controlled environment that looks like a real company. The team gets an attack nobody warned them about — and shows how they react. No risk to production, fully repeatable when needed.
Each scenario tailored to your organisation — we don't run the same exercise for a bank and a manufacturing plant.
Initial infection, lateral spread, attempted resource encryption. The team must quickly identify, isolate and recover.
An attacker has access to the accountant's mailbox. Tries to push a payment, creates inbox rules. Must be caught and stopped.
Quiet movement across the network, privilege escalation, EDR evasion. Classic APT scenario — detection requires correlating many signals.
Unusual volume at unusual hours. We practise network-layer detection and incident response aligned with GDPR/NIS2 procedures.
An update from a vendor contains malicious code. The team must assess scope, contain, and communicate the incident.
Technical pressure combined with psychological. We practise IT–executive collaboration and decisions under time pressure.
An employee with access does something they shouldn't. Harder than it sounds — because they're using "legitimate" tools.
For manufacturers — a scenario hitting PLCs, cameras, automation. Consequences are physical, not just digital.
Every exercise ends with a report — not a vague "passed / failed", but specifics:
How long from the start of the attack until someone in the team noticed something was wrong.
How long from detection to effective containment — cutting off, isolating, blocking.
Did the team take the right steps? What was missed? What was done unnecessarily?
How communication flowed between IT, security, and management. Where the bottlenecks were.
Did the team actually use the procedures or improvise? Do the procedures keep up with reality?
Could a regulatory report (NIS2, GDPR) be assembled in the required timeframes? This is often harder than the attack itself.
The directive explicitly requires awareness and incident exercises. We help you implement and document them — in a way that holds up under audit.
They have tools, they have people — but often nobody has ever tested how the team really behaves under incident pressure. The cyber range is a stress-free environment for that.
The best moment for training is right after something happened. Awareness is high, resistance is low, and you can build strong procedures on fresh lessons.
Accounting, finance, law firms, retail, e-commerce — anywhere employees handle money or customer data. Awareness here is absolutely critical.
Targeted attacks (BEC, voice deepfakes) aim at the top. A dedicated programme for decision-makers is often the highest-leverage investment — and the most often skipped.
Where OT/IoT systems are critical, we run specific industrial scenarios — with physical consequences, not just digital ones.
No templates. Every programme is shaped around what's actually happening in your organisation.
We ask about your industry, tools, team, recent incidents, concerns. Without that, any training is a shot in the dark.
We propose a training scope and exercise scenarios. We agree on what we'll measure and how.
Live sessions, e-learning, phishing campaigns, or a day on the cyber range. Depending on the programme.
Concrete findings: what went well, where the gaps are, what to fix in procedures. Plus a 6–12 month action plan.
Yes — most awareness programmes can run remotely or as e-learning. Simulated phishing and the cyber range also work online. Live sessions we run both onsite (mainly Poznań area) and via Teams/Meet.
Awareness — from a single 1-hour kickoff to a full-year cycle with monthly campaigns and quarterly micro-courses. Cyber range — from half a day (one scenario) to a 2-day workshop with 4–5 scenarios and a full debrief. Usually we combine both formats.
Classic training is knowledge in your head. The range is skill in action, under time pressure and with incomplete information — just like a real incident. After one good exercise, a team learns more about itself than after ten presentations.
If done well — no. We communicate them in advance as part of a general security policy, never publish names of people who clicked, and treat every click as a teachable moment, not punishment. You decide how the results get shared internally.
Yes. Every programme generates attendance lists, test results, exercise reports and recommendations — in a form auditors accept. Many companies hire us specifically to have documented "employee awareness assurance" required by regulations.
No. We can run exercises in an environment we provide — the team learns on new tools. We can also plug exercises into your existing tools — that way we test whether they're properly configured and whether the team can use them.
We ask about your industry, team size, recent incidents (if any) and what's bothering you most. After this talk, you'll know whether we have a programme that makes sense for you — or whether to point you elsewhere. The conversation is free.
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