PhishingTraining
Understand the human risk. Strengthen your defence. Build cyber resilience.
Spearphishing.
Spear phishing is a highly targeted form of social engineering where attackers send deceptive emails that appear to come from a trusted source. They use information gathered from online sources; social media, public records, or previous breaches, to personalise the message and build false trust.
These emails often:
Include malicious attachments or links
Demand urgent action
Impersonate colleagues or suppliers
Because the emails feel familiar, recipients are more likely to act without question, often leading to serious data breaches or financial loss.
Why social engineeringmatters.
Traditional cyber security tools often can’t prevent attacks that begin with human error. Understanding and testing your exposure to social engineering is vital.
Key benefits for your organisation:
Expose human weaknesses
Identify where staff may be vulnerable to manipulation.
Reduce risk of financial loss
Prevent fraudulent transactions and data breaches.
Support compliance
Meets the requirements of ISO 27001, GDPR and other standards.
Improve incident response
Train staff to detect and report suspicious activity.
Ourprocess.
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Scoping & reconnaissance
We collaborate with you to define the scope of the assessment and simulate realistic attack scenarios.
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Payload design & deployment
Craft convincing phishing emails and campaigns based on current real-world threats.
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Monitoring & analysis
Track interactions to evaluate user susceptibility and behavioural patterns.
04
Reporting & recommendations
Deliver a tailored report with insights, key metrics, and practical steps to reduce future risk.
The CyberQ Groupapproach.
CyberQ Group takes a holistic approach to scoping requirements, and the same applies to how we deliver our client projects. From initial engagement through to the completion of assessments and training, our Cyber security Relationship Managers and Technical Specialists work closely with your organisation, ensuring you gain the maximum return on your investment.
Our key training objectives:
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Ensure all training is properly scoped, resourced, and led by cyber security professionals whose skills are closely matched to your organisation’s needs.
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Collaborate with your internal teams to develop a tailored catalogue of training designed to raise the overall cyber maturity of your employees.
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Deliver an engaging and practical learning experience that empowers staff to recognise, respond to, and report social engineering attempts.
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Provide measurable outcomes and clear recommendations to support your longer-term security strategy.
By the numbers
Training thatchanges behaviour.
38%
of UK businesses were hit by phishing last year; it was the most disruptive attack for 69% of those breached
19%
of UK businesses ran any staff cyber training last year
Case study
Phishing Trainingin action.
IT consulting and managed services
A full red team exercise that tested people, technology and leadership in one engagement.
What the work covered: Spear phishing simulation, penetration testing and a C-suite crisis simulation
The challenge
An award-winning IT consulting and managed services provider wanted to find and fix cyber risks before an attacker did. It needed testing that went beyond a standard vulnerability scan or penetration test and covered human factors as well as technical weaknesses.
The approach
CyberQ ran a multi-part red team exercise: targeted spear phishing simulations to test staff awareness, penetration testing to find technical vulnerabilities, and a C-suite cyber simulation to test how leadership would respond in a crisis.
The result
Findings were prioritised for remediation, the incident response plan was updated with lessons from the tabletop exercise, and the leadership team came away better able to make decisions during a cyber crisis.
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attack angles tested in one exercise: people, technology and leadership
C-suite
crisis simulation alongside the technical testing
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updated incident response plan, built on the exercise
WhyCyberQ Group?
Collaboration
We work closely with our partners to mutually provide help and inspiration in our continual efforts in striving for cyber resilience.
Expertise
Our people are highly experienced, certified consultants, with international experience and proven track records.
Innovation
We continually seek to deliver what enables global organisations to achieve a higher level of security maturity and capability.
AboutCyberQ Group.
At CyberQ Group, we combine technical excellence with behavioural insight to reduce human risk. Our team of cyber experts and learning professionals work together to deliver an end-to-end approach to protecting your people, processes and systems. We bring together the best of all these components, keeping your business better protected. The result? Improved business risk profile, significant operational cost savings and long-term peace of mind.
Established in 2016, CyberQ Group’s global team of cyber and business professionals have decades of combined experience within the cyber and technology sectors. We believe even the most daunting challenges can be overcome through collaboration, innovative technology and great people.
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Socialengineering.
Social engineering is a form of cyber deception that targets people, not systems. It exploits human behaviour to trick individuals into giving away sensitive data, financial details, or network access. Rather than hacking into software, attackers manipulate people, making it one of the most effective and low-effort forms of cybercrime. Even poorly researched attacks can succeed by casting a wide net.
This tactic is increasingly common, and it’s harder to detect than you might think.