Security Awareness Training & Phishing Simulation for Employees

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🎣 Security Awareness Training — Phishing Simulation & Micro-Training

Your People Are the Attack Surface. Make Them the Alarm System.

Most breaches still start with a human: a convincing invoice, a fake Microsoft login, a “CEO” asking for gift cards, and now AI-written emails and deepfake voice calls that fool careful people. Annual compliance videos do not change behavior. Continuous simulation and sixty-second lessons do — and they turn your staff from the easiest way in into the fastest way you find out.

  • Monthly phishing simulations that mirror real 2026 attacks — including AI-written lures
  • 60-second micro-lessons at the moment of failure, not hour-long annual videos
  • Deepfake voice and wire-fraud drills for finance and executive teams
  • One-click Report Phish button that feeds our 24/7 SOC directly
  • Board-ready metrics: click rates, report rates, and risk trend by department
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Run a Free Baseline Phish Test

One simulated campaign across your team, and a report showing exactly who clicked what — free, no strings.

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Eight minutes, any hour
Advanced Networks advisors working with a client

Hands-On When It Counts
Onsite from our Westwood office
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One Accountable Team
No vendor ping-pong
Why Training Fails (and What Works)

Security awareness training is the human layer of the Advanced Shield™ platform.

Behavior Changes With Reps, Not Videos

The annual training video satisfies a checkbox and changes nothing — six months later, click rates are right back where they started. What actually rewires behavior is the same thing that works in sports: frequent, realistic reps with immediate feedback. An employee who clicks a simulated phish and gets a sixty-second lesson at that exact moment remembers it. One who reports a real phish and gets a thank-you becomes a sensor.

Our program runs continuously: monthly simulations tuned to what is actually hitting Southern California inboxes (invoice fraud, payroll-change requests, fake DocuSign, MFA-fatigue prompts, and increasingly AI-voiced callback scams), micro-training on failure, escalating difficulty for repeat clickers, and quarterly reporting that shows your insurer and your board a click rate falling quarter over quarter.

A representative finding from a recent engagement: a mid-sized firm’s scanner report buried a critical item at position 212 — an internet-reachable legacy VPN appliance with a known exploited vulnerability. CVSS scoring alone ranked hundreds of internal items above it. Exploitability-based ranking put it first, and it was patched the same week. That is the difference prioritization makes.

  • Campaigns mirror live regional attack patterns, refreshed monthly
  • Finance and exec teams get targeted wire-fraud and deepfake drills
  • Repeat clickers get harder sims and short coaching, not shaming
  • Every report button press is triaged by our SOC — real phish get hunted
70%+
Click-Rate DropTypical within six months
60sec
Lesson LengthDelivered at the moment of failure
12x
Campaigns per YearMonthly, not annual
#2
Insurance ControlAsked on every renewal
What Is Included

A Complete Human-Risk Program, Fully Managed

We run the entire program — you just watch the click rate fall.

Monthly Phishing Simulation
Realistic campaigns drawn from live attack data — invoice fraud, credential harvesting, QR phishing, MFA fatigue — rotated so no one learns the pattern instead of the lesson.
Micro-Training on Failure
Click a sim, get a 60-second targeted lesson right then. No hour-long modules, no LMS logins, no eye-rolling.
Deepfake & Wire-Fraud Drills
Voice-clone callback scams and payment-change fraud simulations for the finance, HR, and executive staff those attacks target.
Report-Phish Button + SOC
One click in Outlook or Gmail sends suspicious mail to our 24/7 SOC. Real threats trigger a hunt across every other mailbox.
New-Hire Onboarding Track
Every new employee gets baseline training and their first simulation in week one — attackers famously target the newest names on LinkedIn.
Compliance & Insurance Reporting
Completion records and trend metrics formatted for HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, and cyber-insurance renewals — generated automatically.
Old Way vs. Our Way

Annual Training vs. Continuous Conditioning

The difference between checking a box and changing an outcome.

01
Annual Video
One hour a year, forgotten by February. Click rates unchanged. Passes an audit, fails a Tuesday morning.
02
Generic Templates
Canned sims employees recognize instantly teach pattern-spotting, not judgment. Ours rotate and mirror real regional lures.
03
Shame-Based Programs
Publicly flagging clickers teaches people to hide mistakes — the exact opposite of what incident response needs.
04
No Feedback Loop
Training without a report button wastes your best sensor. Our button feeds a live SOC that acts on what employees catch.
05
Set-and-Forget Tools
A portal license nobody manages produces nothing. We run campaigns, chase completions, and report — fully managed.
06
Our Program
Monthly reps, instant lessons, targeted drills, SOC integration, falling click rates you can show the board. Behavior, changed.
Industries With Scan Requirements

Security for Every Southern California Industry

From law firms holding privileged files to manufacturers running OT networks, we secure the full range of LA, OC, and SF businesses.

Working With Us

What Clients Say About Our Support

LA companies on the switch — cost, coverage, and control.

★★★★★

“When our IT guy left, we outsourced instead of rehiring. Coverage tripled, spend dropped 30%, and nobody has looked back.”

Brian Foster CFO, Horizon Cloud Software · Santa Monica
★★★★★

“The transition month was the tell: everything documented, nothing lost, tickets closing same-day by week two.”

Emily Carter Chief Financial Officer, Blue Harbor Technologies · Westwood
★★★★★

“We grew from one warehouse to three. IT scaled with a phone call — no hiring, no drama, same flat structure.”

James Bennett IT Director, Summit Digital Systems · Glendale
Straight Answers

Security Awareness Training FAQ

What LA owners ask before outsourcing IT.

How often should employees be trained?
Monthly touchpoints beat annual marathons. Our cadence: one simulation and one micro-lesson per month, with quarterly themed pushes — about 15 minutes of total employee time per quarter.
Will employees feel tricked or punished?
The program is explicitly no-blame: failures trigger a private 60-second lesson, never a public list. Within a few months, the culture shifts from fear to sport — teams start competing on report rates.
Does this satisfy compliance and insurance requirements?
Yes — HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, PCI, and every major cyber policy expect documented, ongoing awareness training. Reports are generated in the format each framework wants.
What about deepfakes and AI-written phishing?
They are already in our simulation library: AI-generated lures with perfect grammar, and voice-clone drills where “the CFO” calls accounting. 2026 training that skips these is training for 2019.
Can you train remote and hybrid teams?
Entirely — everything is delivered through email and browser, and remote workers are statistically the most-targeted segment of your workforce.
How fast do results show?
The baseline test typically embarrasses everyone (20-35% click rates are normal). Expect the first meaningful drop by month three and a 70%+ reduction within six months.

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Find Out Your Click Rate Before an Attacker Does

Free baseline phishing test: one realistic campaign, a department-by-department report, and no obligation. Most executives are surprised. Better surprised by us.