Harden your most-targeted attack surface: people. This track combines phishing simulation, social-engineering defense and controlled adversarial exercises to turn employees from a liability into an active line of defense.
Your Strongest Firewall Still Clicks Links
People remain the most targeted and most exploited layer of any organisation, because no patch closes a curious or trusting human. Phishing, social engineering, MFA-fatigue prompts and now AI-augmented lures — including deepfake voice and video — can turn a single click into a full breach. Technical controls cannot compensate for an untrained workforce, which is exactly the gap this track is built to close.
A blend of everyday awareness and controlled adversarial practice your whole organisation can act on — every highlight below maps to a module in the detailed course syllabus.
Recognising phishing, pretexting, vishing and AI-augmented social engineering
Designing and running safe, consensual phishing-simulation programs
Planning and facilitating controlled red-team exercises with clear rules of engagement
Reducing the human attack surface across credentials, devices and remote work
Building a lasting security-aware culture and a fast, blame-free reporting habit
Three delivery depths — from a leadership briefing to a full simulation program — all tailored to your people and risk.
A leadership session on human risk and security culture that builds sponsorship — no technical prerequisites.
For blue-team analysts: red-team mechanics, social-engineering tradecraft and detection, with guided demos.
Full immersion: stand up a phishing-simulation program, run a controlled red-team exercise and ship a capstone plan.
No technical prerequisites for the awareness tracks — they are designed for every employee
Basic security familiarity helps for the red-team mechanics in the technical deep-dive
A willingness to participate in safe, consensual simulation exercises
A phishing-simulation toolkit with ready-made templates and reporting workflows
Awareness materials — slide decks, micro-lessons and quick-reference cards to keep
Red-team exercise scenarios with rules of engagement and facilitation guides
Content is pitched to each audience so staff, defenders and culture-carriers all leave with what they need.
The everyday targets of phishing, pretexting and social-engineering campaigns.
Leave able to spot, resist and report suspicious messages with confidence.
Detect, triage and respond to social-engineering and red-team activity.
Leave able to recognise attacker tradecraft and tune detection and response.
Carry awareness into teams and sustain a security-aware culture day to day.
Leave able to run simulations, coach colleagues and embed lasting good habits.
Capabilities and tangible artifacts that translate directly into a stronger human-layer defense.
A workforce that reliably recognises and reports phishing and social engineering
The skills to design and run safe, ethical phishing simulations in-house
Confidence to plan and facilitate controlled red-team exercises responsibly
A repeatable way to measure and reduce human risk across the organisation
A phishing-simulation program plan ready to launch in your environment
An awareness curriculum mapped to roles, onboarding and ongoing refreshers
Red-team exercise playbooks with scenarios and rules of engagement
A human-risk baseline and metrics you can track over time
A QSECS certificate of completion for every participant
Five modules scaling from human-risk fundamentals to a hands-on simulation capstone. Select a module to expand it.
How attackers see your organisation and why the human layer is the path of least resistance.
Authority, urgency, trust and curiosity — the levers social engineers pull, and why they work.
Inboxes, phones, chat, third parties and physical access — where the exposure actually lives.
Deepfake voice and video, generated lures and what changes when attacks scale with AI.
From bulk lures to targeted, researched messages — anatomy and tell-tale signals.
Building believable stories and voice-based attacks, and how to break the pretext.
Push-bombing, baited devices and consent-phishing — modern bypasses of strong controls.
Tailgating, impersonation and on-site reconnaissance — and the responses that stop them.
Consent, ethics, scope and communication so simulations build trust rather than fear.
Crafting realistic, fair scenarios that teach without tricking or shaming participants.
Launching campaigns, capturing the right metrics and turning results into learning.
Turning a click into a teachable moment with supportive, immediate feedback.
Scope, authorisation, safety and de-confliction — the guardrails every exercise needs.
Objectives, scenarios and success criteria aligned to real threats to your organisation.
Purple-team collaboration so detection and response improve alongside the test.
Reporting findings constructively and converting them into concrete fixes.
Moving beyond one-off sessions to security behaviours that stick across the year.
Blame-free reporting and recognition so suspicious activity surfaces fast.
Recruiting and supporting champions who carry awareness into every team.
Draft and present a phishing-simulation and awareness program for a realistic scenario.
Awarded by QSECS · Quantum Security Solutions
Every participant who completes the track receives a verifiable QSECS Certificate of Completion — a credible signal to leadership, auditors and customers that your people are an active line of defense.
Individually issued with a unique, verifiable credential ID
Hands-on and lab tracks include a graded capstone assessment
Maps to continuing-education (CPE) hours for common security certifications
Shareable to LinkedIn and your internal skills matrix
An illustrative Day 1 from the 2-day format — every agenda is tailored to your goals before delivery.
Framing human risk, the threat landscape and what "security-aware" actually means for your organisation.
Phishing, pretexting, vishing and MFA-fatigue — the attacker's playbook, with worked examples.
Designing consensual, ethical campaigns and the metrics that turn results into learning.
Rules of engagement, planning and purple-team collaboration with your defenders.
Walk a realistic intrusion end to end and rehearse detection, response and reporting.
Day 2 covers building a phishing-simulation program, debriefing red-team findings, just-in-time coaching and embedding a security-aware culture.
Everything teams usually ask before booking the security awareness & red team track.
The awareness tracks are for every employee and have no technical prerequisites. The technical deep-dive is aimed at SOC and blue-team analysts, where basic security familiarity helps for the red-team mechanics. Executives, people managers and security champions all get content pitched to their role.
Yes. Every simulation runs with leadership authorisation, clear scope and a focus on learning — never on tricking or shaming people. Campaigns are designed to build trust and a reporting habit, and a click always becomes a supportive, just-in-time coaching moment.
All three. We run sessions in-person at your site, fully remote, or hybrid — across time zones for distributed teams. Simulations and exercises are coordinated remotely so delivery mode never limits the experience.
Yes. We tailor scenarios, phishing templates and examples to your industry, brand and tooling, and can localise awareness materials into the languages your workforce uses. Tailoring is scoped during the requirement-analysis call.
We establish a human-risk baseline from simulation results and reporting behaviour, then track trends over time — including how quickly people recognise and report suspicious activity. The goal is a clear, repeatable metric you can show to leadership and improve campaign over campaign.
Yes — every participant receives a verifiable QSECS Certificate of Completion, and hands-on tracks include a graded capstone. The credential maps to CPE hours for common security certifications.