How to Recognize and Avoid Common Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks continue to be a prevalent threat in today's digital landscape.
Security awareness training
Your people are the attack surface.
Almost every breach starts with someone ordinary doing something reasonable. DefSafe teaches the handful of habits that stop it, five minutes at a time.
- 200
- lessons
- 40
- tracks
- 5
- minutes each
The problem
The annual training video does not work.
Everyone has sat through one. An hour of stock footage, a quiz you can pass without watching, a certificate filed away for the auditor. It changes nothing, because nobody remembers an hour of anything.
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Too long to finish
An hour out of a working day gets postponed, then skipped, then chased by email.
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Too general to use
Generic advice about "cyber hygiene" does not tell anyone what to do with the invoice that just arrived.
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Too rare to stick
A habit taught once a year is not a habit. It is a memory, and a faint one.
The approach
Short lessons, one habit at a time.
DefSafe breaks security into five-minute lessons a person can finish on a phone between two meetings, and repeats the ideas until they stick.
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Five minutes, one idea
Each lesson teaches exactly one thing and ends with the action to take. No jargon, and any technical term gets one plain sentence of explanation.
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Real situations, not theory
Lessons are built around the messages, calls and requests people actually receive, so the advice transfers to the next real one.
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Checked, not assumed
Every lesson ends in questions that ask whether the person could act on it, not whether they can repeat a definition.
What it covers
Ten areas, from the basics to the specialist.
The first path is the free foundation everyone starts on. The rest go deeper by role and by risk, so an accountant and a developer do not sit through the same course.
- Cyber safety foundations
- Accounts and identity
- Scams and social engineering
- Devices and networks
- Information, privacy and AI
- Money and transactions
- Family and digital life
- Incident response and recovery
- Workplace roles
- Technical and advanced security
The foundation path is free. Two tracks and ten lessons, the whole starting experience, at no cost.
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Questions
Before you ask
How long does this take out of someone's week?
About five minutes per lesson. A track is five lessons, so a person can finish one in under half an hour, spread across as many days as they like.
Do people need any technical background?
No. The whole thing is written for people who are not in security. Where a technical term cannot be avoided, it gets explained in one sentence the first time it appears.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Lessons are designed for a phone first, which is where most people actually have five spare minutes.
Can we point people at only the parts that apply to them?
Yes. The catalogue is split into paths and tracks by topic and by role, so you can assign the parts that match someone's job instead of sending everyone through everything.
What does it cost?
The foundation path is free: two tracks and ten lessons. For the rest, get in touch and we will work out what it looks like for the size of your team.
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Say roughly how many people you have and what prompted the question. We will come back with what we would suggest.
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