Cyber Security and Compliance Awareness

As cyber attacks and disinformation become more sophisticated and commonplace, it is critical for businesses to ensure the right cyber security awareness training, communication and engagement measures are in place to educate and protect employees and the organisation.
Raising awareness and changing behaviours around cyber security helps ensure your people are capable of being part of your defence.

Creating a strong cyber security culture

With the threat landscape becoming more complex and a tightening of regulations, CISO and IT security leaders are increasing budgets to mitigate cyber breaches and attacks.

As an employee engagement and cyber security communications agency with 20 years’ experience in defining impactful campaigns and awareness training, blue goose are experts in helping you reduce human risk and foster a strong cyber security culture.

We have created strategy and implemented award-winning campaigns for a number of organisations across multiple sectors such as: Bank of England, Computacenter, Barclays, M&S, Burberry and Maersk, among others.

Cyber security awareness training

We have an in-house team of cyber security specialists with years of experience across different sectors plus a network of cyber security specialists and trainers that understand the threat landscape and the risks organisations face.

Working with us, you won’t be expected to go it alone. We’ll get under the skin of your organisation to truly understand how your people work and the risks they face – creating a tailored approach to improve awareness training.

Using our insight and analysis of current cyber threats and trends alongside our experience, we’ll work with you to nudge your people to keep their eyes peeled for threats and make the right calls when they spot them.

Every year we support Cyber Security Awareness Month and you can access our latest cyber awareness tool kit here.

Read more about our approach to cyber security awareness training.

Why we’re different

Blue Goose has been at the forefront of cyber security awareness campaigns for 20 years and in 2013 spearheaded the Think Pr!vacy programme, supported by the Information Commissioner’s Office with a membership of leading companies including: Barclays, Deloitte, HSBC, M&S, Prudential, Visa, Serco and UBS. Read more about this here – bluegooseis.co.uk

Whereas some agencies specialise purely in either employee engagement or cyber security, we’ve been working in both worlds. And with those years of experience we can confidently say you can’t create strong cyber security behaviours in isolation.

Without a doubt, the cyber security work we produced with blue goose was a game changer for us here in the Bank.
Fiona Kennedy, Programme Manager, Bank of England

Talk to our team of specialists today

Cyber Security Awareness Resources: FAQs, Case Studies and Insight

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between cyber security and information security?

Cyber Security and Information Security are closely linked and overlap significantly, however:

Cyber Security focuses on the protection of digital assets from cyber threats, as well as the implementation of controls to protect our systems.
Information Security protects all forms of information, digital and physical. Ensuring that both are managed and handled correctly.

What is phishing?

Phishing is a sophisticated cyber attack that is used to manipulate people out of handing over their sensitive information, transferring money or taking harmful action. Phishing tactics are commonly used in the form of an email that lures the recipient to take action based on urgency, fear or greed. Phishing continues to advance and there are other forms of tactics such as SMS and voice calls.

What is an ethical hacker?

An ethical hacker is someone who, with permission, infiltrates systems to try and actively find vulnerabilities in an organisation’s infrastructure.

The results help the organisation to see where they need to make improvements to build a more resilient and robust cyber defence to avoid being exploited by cyber-criminals. It’s common now for ethical hackers to also become public speaking figures, who use their knowledge to raise awareness about the risks associated with cyber-crime.

How do I choose the best platform for cyber training?

You need to establish a number of factors before you can consider which vendor or platform is suitable for your organisation:

What is your current skill level? How advanced is your organisation in understanding cyber security risks?
What the organisation’s learning style is. Are you video based, e-learning, gamification?
What your budget is.

Look for providers that have been recognised by similar organisations in your industry and that have credibility. You will also want to consider how regularly they update their training and information as this will give an indication as to how informed they are with the threat landscape.

What is the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill?

The UK Government has proposed the introduction of a new bill that will help strengthen cyber defences for critical infrastructure and digital services specifically.

With the ever increasing cyber threats the UK faces, they have recognised the need to support companies in building more robust cyber defences and raise awareness of cyber security among employees.