Context
Recognise
what does not fit.
Unusual signals in emails, calls, access attempts, requests, procedures and working relationships.
Workforce Awareness · Human Readiness
HUMAN READINESS IS OPERATIONAL READINESS.
People are part of your security capability. CyberUP develops awareness, judgement and reporting so that each person can recognise a signal, assess it in context and promptly initiate the appropriate response.
Human Risk
Human risk
depends on context.
People make decisions within real workflows, under pressure and with incomplete information. Readiness develops when cyber-aware behaviour becomes part of the organisation’s everyday work.
Recognise
Judgement
Assess
before acting.
Identity, urgency and the potential consequences of an apparently routine action.
Reporting
Give a concern
useful context.
Clear reports for the people who need to assess them and activate the appropriate response.
Situational Awareness
An individual observation can become operational intelligence.
Clear reporting and responsibilities help the workforce contribute to organisational visibility. The priority is getting useful information to the function that needs to assess it.
Complementary responsibilities
- Staff
- Observe and report.
Recognise an anomaly and share the necessary context through the designated channel.
- Security / SOC
- Assess and correlate.
Analyse the signal alongside available information to understand the situation.
- Operations and response functions
- Act within their remit.
Coordinate relevant actions according to the organisation’s procedures and responsibilities.
Reporting does not transfer responsibility for technical investigation or incident management to staff.
Cyber Culture
Readiness across the workforce.
A shared approach to security.
A mature cyber culture aligns individual decisions with organisational priorities. People understand what to watch for, how to act and when to involve the response functions.
- Awareness
- Recognise anomalies and departures from the expected context.
- Judgement
- Assess risk, identity and consequences before acting.
- Responsibility
- Report clearly, with enough operational context.
- Culture
- Turn experience and debrief findings into shared learning.
Awareness, judgement, responsibility and culture reinforce one another in everyday work.
Experiential Awareness
From awareness
to behaviour.
CyberUP combines knowledge, realistic scenarios, everyday decisions and debriefs. The pathway is tailored to the organisation’s roles, processes and reporting channels.
Learn
Understand your role.
Knowledge, risk awareness and reporting channels establish the foundation.
FocusContext and responsibilities.Exercise
Practise judgement.
Guided scenarios let participants assess requests and signals in workplace situations.
FocusDecisions in context.Simulate
Observe decisions under pressure.
Credible simulated situations test awareness, behaviour and reporting.
FocusObservable behaviour.Prove
Review the response.
The debrief connects decisions and observed consequences to improvement priorities.
FocusEvidence from the exercise.
Reinforcement and further exercises allow behaviour to be checked over time. The evidence remains specific to the conditions tested.
Workforce Readiness
Strengthen the readiness
of your workforce.
We build human readiness pathways around your roles, processes, scenarios and reporting channels, turning awareness, judgement and behaviour into practical organisational capability.
An organisational capability
Prepared people.
Clear responsibilities.
Assessment, scenarios, social engineering, reporting and debriefs tailored to your operating context.
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Social Engineering
The critical moment comes
before the click.
Pressure, trust, urgency and context. Preparation develops judgement: recognise the situation, slow the decision when needed and use the designated channels.
One request.
Several factors to assess.
The same situation can arise by email, phone or through an apparently credible contact. Phishing, vishing and impersonation are addressed in the context of roles and processes.
Pressure, identity and channel need to be assessed together. Behaviour is practised in line with the organisation’s procedures.
Assessing the request
Pressure
Urgency
Trust
Identity
Operational context
Channel