Security Awareness Training

Security Awareness Training teaches employees how to recognize, avoid, and report common cybersecurity threats encountered during everyday work. It focuses on human behavior and practical risks involving email, passwords, devices, workplace data, cloud services, remote working, and online communication.

The course helps learners develop safer digital habits without requiring advanced technical knowledge. Read our Cybersecurity Awareness Training and Compliance Guide for France for a broader explanation of workplace security awareness.

Employees regularly use email, workplace systems, mobile devices, cloud platforms, passwords, and sensitive business information. A single unsafe action, such as opening a malicious attachment, approving a fraudulent payment request, or sharing information with the wrong person, can create a serious security incident.

Security awareness training helps employees pause, verify unusual requests, protect workplace information, and report suspicious activity more quickly. Learn more about why cybersecurity awareness training matters.

The course covers phishing, smishing, vishing, social engineering, business email compromise, payment fraud, malware, ransomware, account takeover, password security, multi-factor authentication, data protection, device security, cloud services, remote working, mobile security, AI tools, incident reporting, and security culture.

Learners also explore workplace responsibilities connected with GDPR, the CNIL, ANSSI guidance, NIS2, internal policies, and organizational accountability.

This course is suitable for employees, managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR professionals, compliance officers, administrators, finance teams, customer service employees, operations staff, remote workers, and anyone who uses workplace technology or handles organizational information.

Security awareness is not only an IT responsibility. Every employee who receives messages, accesses systems, processes payments, works with personal data, or communicates with customers can be targeted by cybercriminals.

Yes. No previous cybersecurity, IT, legal, or data protection experience is required.

The course explains security risks in accessible language and connects them with familiar workplace activities such as checking emails, creating passwords, sharing documents, using mobile devices, accessing cloud services, working remotely, and reporting suspicious incidents.

It is designed to help non-technical employees understand what to look for and what actions to take when they encounter a potential threat.

Yes. Phishing awareness is a central part of the course. Learners examine phishing emails, suspicious links, malicious attachments, fraudulent login pages, urgent requests, impersonation attempts, smishing through text messages, and vishing through telephone calls.

The course also introduces business email compromise and payment fraud risks, which are particularly relevant for finance teams, managers, administrators, and employees authorized to approve transactions. Our guide on how to reduce phishing risks in organizations provides additional practical guidance.

Employees learn to recognize phishing, social engineering, malware, ransomware, account takeover attempts, suspicious attachments, fraudulent payment requests, unsafe websites, credential theft, mobile threats, and business email compromise.

The course also examines newer risks involving AI-generated messages, impersonation, unapproved AI tools, and unsafe handling of organizational information. Explore the top cybersecurity threats employees should know for further examples.

There is no single universal rule requiring every French company to purchase the same security awareness course. However, organizations may have training and awareness responsibilities under data protection rules, cybersecurity regulations, contractual requirements, internal security frameworks, or sector-specific obligations.

Organizations handling personal data should educate users about privacy and security risks. Entities covered by NIS2 or implementing an information security management system may have additional awareness, governance, and documentation requirements.

The course helps employees understand security responsibilities connected with GDPR, CNIL expectations, ANSSI guidance, NIS2, personal data protection, incident escalation, and internal workplace procedures.

It can support a wider compliance programme by improving employee knowledge and creating evidence of completed training. However, one course alone does not guarantee GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001, or organizational compliance. Compliance also requires appropriate policies, technical controls, risk assessments, governance, incident procedures, documentation, and ongoing monitoring.

Employees should receive security awareness training when they join an organization and should receive regular refreshers afterward. Many businesses use annual training as a baseline, supported by shorter reminders, phishing updates, simulations, policy communications, and role-specific learning throughout the year.

Training should also be refreshed when new systems are introduced, working arrangements change, new threats emerge, policies are updated, or an organization experiences a security incident. Review our cybersecurity awareness best practices for practical programme guidance.

Yes. The curriculum addresses remote and hybrid working risks, mobile security, safe network use, cloud services, secure online communication, and responsible use of AI tools and emerging technologies.

Learners examine how unsafe Wi-Fi, personal devices, weak access controls, unauthorized software, unapproved AI platforms, and careless information sharing can expose organizational or personal data.

These topics make the course relevant to employees working from offices, homes, client locations, or while travelling.

Employees should avoid clicking links, opening attachments, replying to the sender, sharing information, or approving payments until the request has been verified.

The message should be reported through the organization’s approved IT, security, compliance, or incident-reporting process. Employees should preserve relevant evidence and follow internal escalation procedures rather than deleting the message immediately.

Our Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Checklist provides a practical reference for safer daily behavior.

The course contains six structured modules and approximately 2.5 hours of learning content. It is delivered fully online and can be accessed using a mobile device or desktop computer.

Learners receive one-year access, allowing them to complete the modules at a suitable pace and revisit the learning materials during the access period.

Yes. The course includes six exercises and one final quiz to help learners review their understanding of the main security awareness topics.

After successfully completing the course, learners receive a certificate of completion from the French Compliance Institute. The certificate can provide evidence that the learner has completed structured professional development in workplace security awareness.

Employees and managers who want to study organizational cyber risk in greater depth can progress to the Cybersecurity and Information Risk Management course. It covers risk governance, EBIOS RM, NIS2, GDPR, DORA, security architecture, incident response, auditing, and third-party risk.

Managers responsible for personal data may also consider RGPD Essentials for Non-Technical Managers. Professionals responsible for implementing an information security management system can continue with the ISO 27001 Lead Implementer course.