Staff security training

Staff who spot the scam email before they click it.

Most breaches start with a person: a convincing email, a reused password or someone unsure of the rules. We give your team short monthly training, send realistic practice scam emails, warn you when a staff password turns up in a breach, and get everyone to read and sign the policies that matter.

We set it up, run it every month and send you the reports your insurer asks for. When someone clicks a practice email, they get a two-minute lesson straight away, not a telling-off. Same service for businesses anywhere in Australia.

The problem

Most attacks start with a person, not a computer.

Firewalls and antivirus do not stop someone typing their password into a fake login page. These three situations cause most of the incidents we clean up.

62%

of breaches involved a person: a click, a mistake or a stolen password

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2026
48%

of breaches involved a third party, such as a supplier or partner

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2026

A convincing email

A fake invoice, a "password expiring" notice or a message from someone posing as your boss. One click hands over a login.

A reused password

A staff member uses the same password at work and on a site that gets breached. Attackers try it on your email the same day.

Nobody knows the rules

Without a short, signed policy, staff are unsure what to share, what to report and who to call when something looks off.

The service

Four things working together

A yearly training video is forgotten by the next month. We run all four of these every month, so your team keeps getting better at spotting scams and you always have the records to prove it.

Security awareness training

Short, regular courses delivered automatically to each user based on their individual risk profile. Courses cover phishing, passwords, working securely from home, social engineering, mobile device security and more. Training runs in the background without disrupting your team.

User-tailored training
Cover essential topics
Automate reminders
Track user progress

Simulated phishing

Realistic phishing simulations sent to your staff on a rolling basis. When someone clicks, they get immediate follow-up training rather than just a ticking-off. Over time, your team gets noticeably better at spotting attacks.

Identify at-risk users
Educate users on threats
Automate simulations
Instant follow-up training

Dark web monitoring

Continuous scanning for your business email addresses and credentials on dark web marketplaces. If a staff member's details show up, you find out before an attacker uses them.

Detect data breaches early
Find the source of exposure
See what's been leaked
Identify early-stage threats

Policy management

Policies your staff actually read and sign. Ready-made templates for the essentials, delivered to each employee with trackable electronic acknowledgement. Automated reminders chase up anyone who has not signed.

Ready-made templates
Track staff signatures
Automate reminders
All in one place
How it works: tailored, measured, effective
1

Evaluate

Every staff member completes a short gap analysis assessment. This identifies where each person's knowledge is weakest and creates an individual risk profile.

2

Educate

Training is automatically assigned based on each person's results, prioritising the highest risk areas first. New courses roll out on a regular cadence.

3

Calculate

Human risk scores are tracked over time, combining training completion, phishing simulation results and dark web exposure into a single ongoing measure.

4

Demonstrate

When your insurer, auditor or procurement team asks for evidence of staff security training, the reports are ready. No scrambling, no manual collation.

Best practice and compliance

Make it stick, and prove it works

The businesses that see the biggest reduction in phishing susceptibility do the same few things: short training every month, regular practice emails, and a quick follow-up lesson for anyone who clicks. And when your insurer or auditor asks for evidence, the reports are already there.

1

Keep training short

Short video modules are far more likely to be completed than long-form courses. Bite-sized and regular beats an annual all-day session.

2

Cover the right topics

Phishing, passwords, remote working, mobile devices and social engineering are the areas that matter most for Australian SMBs.

3

Train monthly

Monthly training keeps knowledge fresh. Quarterly at minimum. An annual compliance tick-box does not change behaviour.

4

Run quarterly phishing simulations

Enough to monitor risk over time and test staff against new tactics, without becoming noise that staff learn to dismiss.

5

Use real-world scenarios

Simulate the kind of attacks your team is actually likely to face, not generic templates that look nothing like what attackers send.

6

Make it everyone's responsibility

Security is not just IT's problem. Leadership needs to actively support the programme, not just forward a link and hope for the best.

Framework alignment

Built to satisfy the frameworks that matter

Security awareness training is a required control under SMB1001, the Essential Eight Maturity Model, and ISO 27001. It also comes up at almost every cyber insurance renewal.

SMB1001: Awareness training is a required control at Gold tier and above
Essential Eight: Supports the Application Control and User Application Security strategies
ISO 27001: Clause 7.2.2 requires awareness, education and training
Cyber insurance: Underwriters increasingly require evidence of ongoing training and phishing simulations
Included in our plans

Already part of every Real Bytes plan

Security awareness training is not an optional add-on at Real Bytes. It is part of the standard managed stack on every plan, alongside Huntress MDR, Microsoft Defender and dark web monitoring.

RealBytes One

For sole traders and single-user businesses

See the plan

Advantage

For teams that need committed monthly support

See the plan

Ultimate

For teams that need to prove their security

See the plan

Start reducing human cyber risk

Talk to us about getting a managed SAT programme running for your team. We handle the setup, the ongoing training cycles, the phishing simulations and the reporting.

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