Staff security training

A year-long team training plan

Program

  1. 1

    Month 1 — basic hygiene

    Password manager, 2FA everywhere, updates, screen lock.

  2. 2

    Month 2 — phishing

    Recognizing emails, checking domains, phishing simulation (test campaign).

  3. 3

    Month 3 — data

    Data classification, what goes where, encryption, secure file sharing.

  4. 4

    Month 4 — incidents

    Who to notify and within how many minutes; 'hacked account' role-play.

  5. 5

    Then quarterly

    Refreshers on new schemes, repeat simulations, metrics (phish-click rate).

Effectiveness is measured by behavior, not attendance: track the phish-click rate and response time to a test incident. Short 20-min monthly sessions beat an annual 4-hour training.