Employee Security Awareness Assessment
Comprehensive assessment of employee security awareness levels to identify training needs and security culture gaps.
In scope
- Security awareness surveys
- Phishing simulation tests
- Knowledge assessments
- Behavior analysis
- Culture evaluation
You receive
- Awareness assessment report
- Training needs analysis
- Culture improvement recommendations
- Awareness program roadmap
- Metrics and benchmarks
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Small Organization Assessment
$15K
Awareness assessment for up to 100 employees at 1 location: 1 survey, 1 phishing simulation campaign, 1 knowledge assessment and up to 10 interviews. Report with training needs, benchmarks and a program roadmap.
- employees
- 100
- Sites
- 1
- Objectives
- 1
- participants
- 10
- Security awareness survey for all staff in scope
- 1 phishing simulation campaign
- Knowledge assessment
- Up to 10 staff interviews
- Assessment report, training needs analysis and roadmap
- — Repeat phishing campaigns
- — Per-department breakdown
- — Training content or delivery
- — Ongoing phishing platform subscription
Medium Organization Assessment
$25K
Awareness assessment for up to 500 employees and up to 3 locations: survey, 2 phishing simulation campaigns of different difficulty, knowledge assessment and up to 25 interviews. Results broken down by department.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 3
- Objectives
- 2
- participants
- 25
- Survey and knowledge assessment for all staff in scope
- 2 phishing simulation campaigns
- Up to 25 staff interviews
- Per-department results and benchmarks
- Culture evaluation
- Training needs analysis and roadmap
- — Role-targeted campaigns (executives, finance, IT)
- — Training content or delivery
- — Ongoing phishing platform subscription
Large Organization Assessment
$40K
For more than 500 employees; no fixed cap on headcount and locations - scoped at kickoff. Survey, 3 phishing campaigns including one targeted at high-risk roles, knowledge assessment and up to 50 interviews. Results by department, site and role.
- Objectives
- 3
- participants
- 50
- Survey and knowledge assessment for all staff in scope
- 3 phishing campaigns, 1 targeted at executives, finance and IT
- Up to 50 staff interviews and focus groups
- Results by department, site and role
- Culture evaluation with benchmarks
- Multi-year awareness program roadmap
- — Training content development
- — Training delivery
- — Ongoing phishing platform subscription
- — Vishing or physical social engineering
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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