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Your staff are not the weakest link. Untrained staff are.
Practical security awareness and phishing simulations built to raise reporting rates — used as measurement, never as public shaming.
The cheapest security control per dollar, and the one most often done badly.
A phishing simulation that exists to catch and embarrass people teaches one lesson: never tell IT you clicked. That is the opposite of what you want.
The measure of a security culture is not how few people click — someone always clicks — it is how fast they report. A workforce that reports a suspected phish in two minutes gives you a chance to contain it; one that hides the click gives the attacker the afternoon. So we optimize training for reporting speed, and we treat a click as a teaching moment, not a disciplinary one.
This is engineering-grade training, not a video with a quiz. It is specific to the threats your staff actually face, measured over time, and reported as a trend you can show a board or an auditor.
The attacks that actually hit small and mid-sized companies.
- Phishing and spear-phishing recognition
- Business email compromise and fake-invoice fraud
- Voice phishing and MFA-fatigue attacks
- Passwords, passphrases and password managers
- Using MFA properly — and why push-approval is not automatic
- Safe handling and sharing of sensitive data
- Recognizing and reporting an incident, fast
- Remote and travel security habits
- Physical security: tailgating, device theft, clear desk
- Role-specific risk for finance, HR and executives
Formats that fit a working company, not a lecture hall.
- Onboarding module
- Short, concrete security induction for every new hire — so day one includes how to spot and report a phish, not just where the coffee is.
- Phishing simulations
- Realistic campaigns run with your approval and knowledge, escalating in difficulty. Measured for click and report rates, followed immediately by a teachable explanation — never a name published on a wall.
- Role-specific sessions
- Finance sees invoice fraud and payment-diversion; HR sees CV-borne malware and data requests; executives see whaling and travel exposure.
- Executive briefing
- A separate, candid session for leadership — they are the highest-value targets and usually the least trained.
- Progress reporting
- Click rate, report rate and time-to-report as a trend line, plus benchmarking against where you started. This is the number that shows the program works.
One principle we do not bend.
Simulations are for learning and measurement, full stop. We do not publish lists of who clicked, we do not tie results to performance reviews, and we design campaigns to be fair rather than to maximize catches. A program that makes people afraid of IT makes your company less safe, not more. If a vendor's phishing service is built around a “wall of shame,” it is optimizing the wrong number.
If a fake invoice arrived today, would finance report it — or pay it?
Tell us your headcount and the roles most at risk. We will propose a training cadence and a first simulation.
Contact us- info@bstedge.com
- Response
- Within one business day
- Measured on
- Report rate and time-to-report