Security Awareness Training — Turn Every Employee Into a Line of Defence
Technology stops most attacks. People stop the rest — or let them in. Security Awareness Training built into your email security platform means realistic phishing simulations, targeted training, and a one-click report button that turns every employee into an active sensor for your organisation.
Why Training Alone Doesn't Work — And What Does
Annual security awareness programmes with generic phishing templates and multiple-choice quizzes have a well-documented problem: employees forget them within weeks, and the simulations bear no resemblance to the AI-generated, highly personalised attacks they actually face.
Modern phishing is written by AI — grammatically perfect, personalised with LinkedIn data, timed to catch people off-guard. Training has to match the threat. That means realistic simulations using current attack techniques, adaptive content that responds to each employee's behaviour, and integration with live email security so training and detection reinforce each other.
The goal of Security Awareness Training is not to make employees into security experts. It is to reduce the likelihood that a single click causes an incident — and to ensure that when something suspicious arrives, employees know exactly what to do with it.
What Our Security Awareness Training Provides
🎯 Realistic Phishing Simulations
GPT-powered simulations that replicate real-world AI-driven phishing attacks — not generic templates. Campaigns are continuously updated with current attack techniques used against organisations like yours right now.
🧠 Smart Targeting by Role
Training matched to each employee's role, department, and individual risk level. Finance teams receive payment fraud scenarios. Executives receive impersonation attacks. Everyone receives what is most relevant to them.
🎓 Adaptive Content on Failure
When an employee clicks on a simulated phishing email, they immediately receive contextual training — explaining exactly what they missed and why. Learning at the moment of failure, not weeks later in a classroom.
🚨 One-Click Reporting in Outlook & Gmail
A report button built into every employee's inbox. One click to flag a suspicious email — and IRONSCALES automatically checks whether the same email has reached other inboxes across the organisation, removing it from all of them simultaneously.
📊 Measurable Risk Reduction
Track which employees are most at risk, which departments need targeted training, and how your organisation's click rate on phishing simulations changes over time. Security posture measured, not assumed.
📋 NIS2 Training Requirement — Met
NIS2 Article 21 explicitly requires organisations to implement security awareness programmes for all personnel. Our training satisfies this requirement out of the box — with campaign logs and completion records as your compliance documentation.
Unlike standalone awareness training platforms, our Security Awareness Training is built directly into IRONSCALES — the same platform protecting your inboxes. Phishing simulations use the same detection intelligence as live email security. When an employee reports a suspicious email, it feeds back into the AI that protects everyone else. Training and protection work as one system.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from annual security training?
Annual training is a point-in-time exercise — employees complete it, forget it, and the organisation checks a compliance box. Our approach is continuous: realistic simulations run throughout the year, training is triggered by behaviour rather than a calendar, and employees build habits rather than sitting through a presentation. The phishing simulations use current, AI-generated attack techniques — not three-year-old templates.
Does this satisfy NIS2 requirements for security awareness?
Yes. NIS2 Article 21 requires organisations to implement security awareness programmes for all personnel involved in cybersecurity. Our training provides campaign logs, completion records, and per-employee risk tracking — all the documentation required to demonstrate compliance. It also satisfies DORA's requirement for staff training on ICT risks.
What happens when an employee reports a suspicious email?
One click on the report button in Outlook or Gmail sends the email to IRONSCALES for analysis. If it is confirmed as a threat, IRONSCALES automatically removes the same email from every other inbox in the organisation — not just the one that was reported. Every employee who reports becomes a sensor protecting everyone else.
Do we need to install anything?
No. Security Awareness Training is built into the IRONSCALES platform, which integrates via API into Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. No separate software, no additional agents, no changes to your email flow. The report button appears automatically in Outlook and Gmail for all users.
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