Cyber Security Awareness Training Course for Employees

Did You Know These Facts About Cyber Security?

• Australians reported more than 84,700 cybercrimes last year – one every six minutes (ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25)
• The average cybercrime now costs an Australian small business $56,600, up 14% in a single year (ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25)
• 37% of all reported data breaches were caused by human error, not hacking (OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Report, Jan-Jun 2025)

Course Overview

This online cyber security awareness training course helps employees, contractors and volunteers prevent cyber-attacks and avoid security breaches. It gives your people practical ways to work safely online, and to identify and report a cyber security incident quickly – which is often the difference between a contained event and a notifiable data breach. It also delivers training in social engineering fraud, phishing and cyber fraud that your cyber security insurer requires, along with dated staff completion records that prove you delivered it.

The course is legally endorsed and written in collaboration with Mills Oakley Lawyers  for Australia and Simpson Grierson for New Zealand.

Pricing depends on how many people you need to train and whether you take the course on its own or as part of the full Sentrient compliance platform. Book a free course demo for an exact quote for your team size.

Target Audience

Anyone with a login or company email address can create risk, so this training is for employees, contractors, volunteers, casuals, new starters and remote staff. Managers and executives should complete it as well, as they are prime targets for business email compromise because they can approve payments and access sensitive information. No technical knowledge is required.

Topics Covered

The following topics are covered in this cyber security online learning:

• What cyber security means at work – and why it is everyone’s job, not just IT’s
• Social engineering – how attackers manipulate people into helping them
• Phishing emails and malicious links – how to spot one, and what to do when you do
• Malware and ransomware – how they get in, and how to stop them
• Protecting your password – and why reusing one puts the whole organisation at risk
• Keeping your devices safe, in the office and at home
• Recognising and reporting a cyber security incident – fast, and without fear of blame

Duration

15 minutes. It is deliberately built as micro-learning so your entire workforce can complete it without disrupting operations – and so people actually finish it rather than abandoning it halfway. A 200-person team can be fully trained inside a week, without anyone leaving their desk.

Learner Experience

Most compliance training fails for one reason: nobody finishes it. This course is built as short, scenario-driven micro-learning. Learners work through real workplace situations – a suspicious email, a convincing login page, an urgent message from the CEO – and decide what they would do. It is simple to navigate, works on any device, and is written for people with no technical background. It can be delivered through the Sentrient online workplace compliance system, the Sentrient HR platform, or your own existing learning management system. Learners finish with a short assessment and a declaration committing to working safely online and to reporting incidents when they see them – so you get a completion certificate for the individual and an audit-ready record for the organisation.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this cyber security awareness course, your employees, contractors, and volunteers will be able to:

• Understand why cyber security is everyone’s responsibility, not just IT’s
• Recognise and avoid phishing emails, malicious links and social engineering
• Use passwords that actually protect your data – and stop reusing them
• Keep laptops, phones and home devices secure
• Identify a security breach and report it immediately
• Know exactly what to do in the first five minutes of a suspected incident

Business Outcomes

Once your people have completed this online cyber security awareness training course, you will achieve the following benefits:

• Fewer successful phishing and social engineering attacks, because your people stop clicking
• Faster incident reporting – the difference between a contained event and a notifiable breach
• Evidence for your cyber insurer at renewal, and at claim time
• Audit-ready records showing exactly who was trained and when
• Support for your reporting obligations under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
• A culture where people report a suspicious email to IT instead of quietly deleting it