Phishing Simulation & Cyber Security Awareness Training
Turn your employees into your strongest line of defence against cyber attacks
Build a Human Firewall Against Phishing Attacks
Your employees are one of the most targeted entry points for cyber criminals. We deliver practical cybersecurity awareness training and phishing simulations that help staff recognise phishing emails, social engineering attempts and other real-world cyber threats before they cause harm.
By combining training with regular phishing simulations, organisations move beyond awareness alone and build lasting behaviour change that reduces the risk of human error-based security incidents.
What Our Cybersecurity Training Covers
Role-based training designed to improve day-to-day security behaviour and reduce the risk of successful phishing attacks and social engineering.
Phishing Awareness
How to identify phishing emails, smishing text messages and increasingly convincing AI-generated phishing attacks targeting business inboxes.
Password Security & Authentication
Best practice for creating strong passwords, using password managers and enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) across business systems.
Social Engineering Attacks
How attackers manipulate human behaviour through email, phone calls and impersonation tactics, and how to recognise common warning signs.
Secure Device & Remote Working
Safe use of laptops, mobile devices and home networks, including guidance on public Wi-Fi, remote access and removable media risks.
Data Protection & GDPR Awareness
How to handle sensitive business and personal data securely in line with UK GDPR and internal security policies.
Security Reporting Culture
Encouraging early reporting of suspicious activity, mistakes or potential incidents to reduce impact and improve response times.
How Our Phishing Simulation Programme Works
A structured, ongoing approach designed to measure behaviour change and continuously improve cyber resilience across your organisation.
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Baseline Phishing Assessment
We run an initial phishing simulation campaign to understand current staff awareness levels and establish a measurable baseline for improvement.
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Awareness Training Programme
We deliver targeted cybersecurity awareness training sessions tailored to different roles, focusing on real-world threats employees are most likely to encounter.
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Ongoing Phishing Simulations
Regular simulated phishing campaigns replicate real attacker techniques, helping reinforce training and identify ongoing risk areas.
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Reporting & Behaviour Insights
Management reporting provides visibility of engagement levels, click rates, reporting rates and improvement trends over time.
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Continuous Security Improvement
Training and simulations are continuously updated to reflect emerging cyber threats, ensuring awareness stays relevant and effective.
Why Phishing Awareness Training Matters
Most successful cyber attacks begin with a phishing email or social engineering attempt rather than a technical vulnerability. This makes human behaviour a critical part of any organisation’s cybersecurity strategy.
Investing in cybersecurity awareness training helps reduce the likelihood of successful phishing attacks, improves incident reporting speed and strengthens overall organisational resilience against evolving cyber threats.
What is Phishing Simulation?
Phishing simulation is a controlled cybersecurity exercise where realistic phishing emails are sent to employees to measure how they respond. It helps identify how many users click malicious links, submit credentials or correctly report suspicious emails.
Rather than punishing mistakes, phishing simulations are designed as a learning tool. They provide immediate feedback and targeted training to reinforce better decision-making and reduce future risk.
Why Cybersecurity Awareness Training Works
While technical controls block many cyber attacks, attackers often target human behaviour as the easiest route into an organisation. Cybersecurity awareness training helps reduce this risk by equipping employees with the knowledge to recognise and respond to threats in real time.
When combined with regular phishing simulations, training becomes continuous rather than one-off, helping organisations build a stronger security culture, improve reporting behaviour and significantly reduce the risk of human error-related security incidents.
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Phishing & Staff Training FAQs
Answers to common questions about phishing simulations, cybersecurity awareness training and how to reduce human error-related cyber risk.
Phishing simulation training is a controlled cybersecurity exercise where employees receive realistic simulated phishing emails to test how they respond. It helps organisations identify risky behaviour, improve awareness and reduce the likelihood of successful phishing attacks.
Phishing awareness training is important because most cyber attacks start with human error rather than technical failure. Training helps employees recognise phishing emails, social engineering attempts and suspicious links before they can cause a security incident.
Phishing training teaches employees how to recognise and respond to cyber threats, while phishing simulation tests that knowledge in real-world scenarios. When used together, they help reinforce learning and improve long-term security behaviour.
Phishing simulations send realistic but safe test emails to employees to see how they respond. The results show who clicks links, who submits information and who reports the email, helping organisations identify areas where additional training is needed.
No. Phishing simulations are designed as a learning and awareness tool, not a punishment. The goal is to improve employee behaviour through feedback, training and ongoing education, rather than blame or disciplinary action.
Most organisations run phishing simulations on a regular basis, such as monthly or quarterly. Ongoing simulations are more effective than one-off tests because they reinforce training and reflect evolving cyber threats.
Phishing simulations can replicate a wide range of attacks, including email phishing, credential harvesting, malicious links, invoice fraud, CEO impersonation and increasingly AI-generated phishing attempts.
Yes. Phishing training significantly reduces the risk of successful cyber attacks by improving employee awareness and encouraging safer behaviour, such as reporting suspicious emails and avoiding malicious links.
A human firewall refers to employees acting as a security control by recognising and stopping cyber threats before they reach systems or data. Phishing awareness training helps build this “human layer” of defence.
ABS provides structured cybersecurity awareness training combined with ongoing phishing simulations to help organisations improve employee awareness, reduce human error and strengthen overall cyber resilience.
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