Protect Your Workplace: 1-Day Cyber Security Training
Training Overview
This 1-Day Cyber Awareness Workshop for general staff is instructor-led, featuring examples that demonstrate how cyber threats impact both staff and the company. It’s designed to motivate participants by linking threats to their work and personal life, building engagement through a clear understanding of how security protects everyone and the organisation.
Throughout the day, staff participate in activity-based sessions on social engineering and phishing, including a spot-the-phish challenge, scam-call role-plays, and a phishing simulation, to help them spot and resist scams (phishing remains the #1 cause of breaches worldwide). They build secure digital behaviour through guided activities on password hygiene, MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication), device safety and safe internet/email use, including a password-creation activity. Role-play and guided practice, then focus on detecting signs of incidents, reporting quickly and practising incident-reporting steps. The day closes with an interactive quiz/game to reinforce behaviours and key points, helping retention, confidence and clarity on the key lessons.
Who is this training for?
- General staff across all departments (no technical background required)
- Customer-facing teams (sales, service, reception)
- Admin, Finance and HR handling sensitive data
- New starters, interns and contractors
- Hybrid/remote workers using personal or mobile devices
- Teams preparing for audits or compliance initiatives
- People leaders and managers responsible for team practices
- Third-party vendors/partners with access to your systems
Training Outcomes:
- Understand why cyber awareness matters at work and at home — and your personal role
- Recognise phishing and social engineering across email, calls and messages
- Resist common scams and avoid typical traps
- Build everyday secure digital behaviour: strong passwords, MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication), device safety, safe browsing
- Create stronger passwords (guided activity) and enable MFA
- Detect red flags and report suspected incidents quickly via the right channels
- Reinforce key lessons through an interactive quiz for confidence and retention
Training Duration & Delivery
- In-Person Instructor-Led (Private delivery): Hands-on, 1-day workshop at your preferred training location. Includes stories/examples, spot-the-phish challenge, scam-call role-plays, password-creation activity, incident-reporting practice and an interactive quiz.
- Virtual Instructor-Led (Private delivery): Live online with the same 1-day agenda and activities (phishing simulation, role-plays, secure digital behaviour practice and final quiz).
Training Modules
Module 1: Why Awareness Matters | 1 hr
- Instructor-led with stories/examples – how cyber threats affect staff and company.
- Intent: Motivate staff by connecting cyber threats to their work and personal life.
- Importance: Engagement grows when people see how security protects both them and the company.
- Takeaway: Real understanding of why vigilance matters, and the personal role each person plays.
Module 2: Social Engineering & Phishing | 1.5 hr
- Activity-based – spot-the-phish challenge, role-play of scam calls, phishing simulation.
- Intent: Teach staff to spot and resist scams.
- Importance: Phishing remains the #1 cause of breaches worldwide.
- Takeaway: Confidence in recognising suspicious emails, calls, or messages and avoiding common traps.
Module 3: Secure Digital Behaviour | 1.5 hr
- Instructor-led + activities – password hygiene, MFA, device safety, safe internet/email use. Includes password-creation activity.
- Intent: Instil good everyday habits around passwords, devices, and internet use.
- Importance: Poor digital hygiene is the easiest way attackers get in.
- Takeaway: Practical tips for secure passwords, device handling, MFA, and safer browsing.
Module 4: Detect, Report, Respond | 1.5 hr
- Role-play + guided practice – signs of incidents, how to report quickly, practice incident reporting steps.
- Intent: Ensure staff know what to do if they see or suspect an incident.
- Importance: Quick reporting reduces the impact of attacks.
- Takeaway: Confidence in recognising red flags and reporting through the right channels without fear.
Module 5: Recap & Knowledge Quiz | 1 hr
- Interactive quiz/game – reinforce behaviours and key points, energising close.
- Intent: Reinforce learning in an engaging, memorable way.
- Importance: Helps retention and builds confidence.
- Takeaway: Clarity on the key lessons, reinforced with practical examples and a sense of achievement.
About the Trainer
Simona Dimovski
Cybersecurity & Technology Leader | Expert-in-Residence (XIR) | Executive Advisor
Simona Dimovski is a cybersecurity and technology executive with 20+ years of leadership across finance, aviation, energy, insurance and government. A former CIO and CISO, she has led major digital transformation and cyber uplift programs and driven board-level risk governance.
Simona’s engaging teaching style and industry expertise make her an exceptional facilitator for Upskilled learners. She brings practical, real-world context to every session via live case studies, leadership experience and deep knowledge of Australia’s regulatory landscape.
Simona brings a unique blend of executive experience, strategic insight, and teaching capability. Her programs enable learners to move beyond theory—developing the practical skills and confidence to lead, manage, and respond effectively in real-world cyber scenarios.
Pricing Options
FAQs
This instructor-led, 1-day cyber security training for staff builds practical cyber awareness through stories, hands-on activities and simulations. The workshop focuses on why cyber awareness matters at work and at home, how to recognise phishing and social engineering, everyday secure digital behaviour (passwords, MFA, device safety, safe browsing), and how to detect red flags and report incidents quickly—ending with an interactive quiz to reinforce key takeaways.
Delivery is private and instructor-led, available in-person (onsite) or virtual instructor-led (live online). Both formats follow the same one-day agenda with interactive, activity-based learning: spot-the-phish challenges, role-plays, guided practice for incident reporting, and a closing quiz. Whether online or onsite, the emphasis is on practical, workplace-ready cyber security training for staff.
Yes—phishing awareness and social engineering are a core focus. Participants practise identifying suspicious emails, calls and messages through challenges, role-plays and a phishing simulation, building confidence to resist scams. The Detect, Report, Respond module then ensures staff know the signs of an incident and how to report quickly through the right channels, helping reduce risk and impact.
No technical background is required. The cyber awareness workshop uses plain-language explanations and everyday examples that link threats to both work and personal life. Activities focus on practical skills—creating stronger passwords, enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), safer internet/email use and basic device safety—so staff leave with habits they can apply immediately.
The workshop works well with small to mid-sized cohorts to maximise interaction (e.g., ~12–15 participants). For larger rollouts, we can schedule multiple sessions—virtual or onsite—to reach distributed teams efficiently while maintaining the hands-on nature of workplace cyber security training.
We can supply concise reference materials and optional refresher touch-points to reinforce secure digital behaviour over time. These support habit formation—strong passwords, MFA, safe browsing and rapid incident reporting—so your phishing awareness gains are sustained after the workshop.
Upon finishing the 1-day workshop, attendees receive an Upskilled certificate of completion. Many organisations use this as evidence of staff cyber security training for compliance, onboarding and audit trails, alongside quiz results that reinforce phishing awareness and secure digital behaviour.
