Scenario-Based Learning
Put security concepts into context through realistic workplace situations that encourage employees to think about how they would respond.
Equip employees with the knowledge and practical understanding they need to recognise cyber risks, make informed security decisions, and contribute to a stronger security culture.
S-Aware delivers engaging, scenario-based security and privacy awareness training designed to help organisations move beyond compliance-driven learning and build the knowledge foundation for continuous security behaviour change.
Employees are one of an organization's most important lines of defence against cyber threats. But they can only make secure decisions when they understand the risks they face and know how to respond.
S-Aware provides the foundational learning layer of the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite (SBCS), helping employees understand cybersecurity risks through practical, relevant and engaging learning experiences.
From phishing and social engineering to passwords, data protection, privacy and information security, S-Aware helps organisations establish a consistent level of security knowledge across their workforce.
But awareness is only the beginning.
The knowledge developed through S-Aware can be continuously reinforced through microlearning, phishing simulations, gamification, visual nudges and behavioural measurement across the broader SucceedLEARN SBCS ecosystem.
Build knowledge. Reinforce behaviour. Strengthen security culture.
Most organisations conduct annual security awareness training to satisfy compliance requirements. However, awareness alone does not always translate into secure day-to-day behaviour.
S-Aware is designed to establish that critical foundation by equipping employees with practical cybersecurity knowledge through engaging, scenario-based learning aligned with global security and privacy regulations. It forms the first layer of the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite, through engaging, scenario-based learning, employees encounter cybersecurity concepts in situations that reflect the decisions they may face during everyday work.
Instead of treating awareness as a box to tick, S-Aware helps organisations establish the knowledge and understanding required to support stronger security behaviours over time.
Effective security awareness goes beyond policy documents, lengthy presentations and information-heavy courses. Employees retain knowledge better when they experience realistic situations, make decisions, receive immediate feedback, and revisit concepts regularly.
S-Aware combines these learning principles to create awareness programmes that are engaging, measurable, and applicable to everyday work.
Put security concepts into context through realistic workplace situations that encourage employees to think about how they would respond.
Move beyond passive content consumption with interactions, knowledge checks and assessments that encourage active participation throughout the learning journey.
Translate security concepts and policies into practical actions employees can apply during their everyday work.
Deliver security awareness in a format designed for employees across roles, departments and levels of technical expertise.
Use S-Aware as the foundation of a wider programme in which knowledge can be reinforced throughout the year through additional SBCS interventions.
Security awareness needs vary based on regulatory requirements, industry risks and evolving workplace threats. S-Aware brings these learning needs together in one comprehensive course library, making it easier to identify training relevant to your organisation and workforce.
Explore the library across three key areas:
| Training Category | What You’ll Find | Training Areas |
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| Frameworks & Regulations | Security, privacy and compliance awareness training relevant to recognised frameworks and regulatory requirements. |
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| Industry-Focused Training | Security awareness designed around the risks, responsibilities and threat environments relevant to specific industries. |
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| Core & Emerging Topics | Foundational security awareness and emerging topics that help employees recognise and respond to everyday and evolving workplace risks. |
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Explore the S-Aware Course Library
Select a category to discover the S-Aware training relevant to your organisation’s framework compliance requirements, industry environment or security awareness priorities.
Build employee security habits that support SOC 2 trust service criteria.
View CourseStrengthen staff awareness aligned to UK Cyber Essentials expectations.
View CourseHelp teams understand ISO 27001 responsibilities and everyday secure behaviours.
View CourseTrain covered entities on HIPAA privacy and security duties in everyday work.
View CourseHelp non-covered entities understand HIPAA-aligned privacy and security expectations.
View CourseGive employees clear guidance on protecting cardholder data day to day.
View CoursePrepare cashiers and payment handlers for secure POS practices.
View CourseHelp employees protect personal data and follow UK data protection expectations.
View CourseHelp staff recognise CCPA consumer rights and responsible data practices.
View CourseSupport education teams in protecting eligible student education records under FERPA.
View CourseHelp staff handle non-eligible student records with FERPA-aligned privacy practices.
View CourseBuild employee awareness around cybersecurity risks relevant to banking, financial services, private equity and venture capital environments.
View CourseBuild foundational employee awareness across everyday cybersecurity risks and secure workplace behaviours.
View CourseHelp employees understand how to use AI technologies more responsibly while recognising the security, privacy and organisational risks associated with workplace AI use.
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Generic cybersecurity principles are important, but employees also need to understand how security applies within their own organisation.
S-Aware can support customised learning experiences that incorporate organisation-specific requirements into the broader awareness programme.
Depending on the agreed scope, organisations can adapt learning to reflect elements such as:
This helps connect general cybersecurity knowledge with the policies and behaviours employees are expected to follow within their own workplace.
Every organisation has a different learning and technology environment. S-Aware offers flexible delivery and integration options, allowing organisations to deploy security awareness through SucceedLEARN, their existing LMS, or a connected enterprise environment.
Choose the approach that best fits your infrastructure, learner experience and programme requirements.
Security awareness should be measurable.
S-Aware enables organisations to monitor learning activity and understand how employees are progressing through assigned awareness programmes.
Depending on the deployment and programme configuration, organisations can use learning data and assessments to monitor areas such as:
These insights help security, compliance and learning teams understand programme participation and identify opportunities for additional communication, learning or reinforcement.
For organisations using the wider SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite, awareness data can form part of a broader view of employee security engagement and behaviour through S-Metrics.
Cybersecurity affects everyone, but employees encounter risk in different ways depending on their roles, responsibilities and working environments.
S-Aware is designed to make essential security knowledge understandable and relevant across the organisation.
Establish security expectations from the beginning by incorporating cybersecurity awareness into employee onboarding and helping new employees understand their responsibilities from day one.
Build a consistent foundation of security awareness across departments and functions, regardless of an employee's level of technical knowledge.
Help managers understand important security risks and reinforce responsible security behaviours within their teams.
Support employees working across offices, homes and distributed environments with awareness of the security considerations associated with modern ways of working.
Where required, organisations can build learning programmes around the security awareness needs of particular employee groups, functions or risk profiles.
Building a security-aware workforce often requires collaboration across multiple organisational functions.
S-Aware provides a common learning foundation that helps these teams support their respective security awareness objectives.
Build employee understanding of cyber threats and reinforce the behaviours that support the organisation's wider security strategy.
Deliver structured awareness programmes that can support relevant internal, regulatory and framework-based training requirements.
Provide employees with engaging and measurable learning experiences that can be incorporated into broader organisational learning programmes.
Introduce security awareness during onboarding and reinforce employees' responsibilities throughout their lifecycle within the organisation.
Gain greater visibility into awareness initiatives and demonstrate organisational commitment to developing a stronger security culture.
As part of the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite, continuous learning, reinforcement, engagement, testing and measurement work together to help organisations build stronger security behaviours.
Build foundational cybersecurity and privacy knowledge.
Keep important security concepts fresh through continuous microlearning.
Give employees practical experience recognising realistic phishing threats.
Reinforce cybersecurity concepts through interactive and gamified learning.
Keep security visible through ongoing awareness campaigns and visual nudges.
Bring awareness and behavioural data together to understand programme performance.
Integrate security awareness with the organisation's wider learning and technology ecosystem.
Together, these solutions create a continuous cycle of learning, testing, reinforcement and measurement.
| Traditional Awareness | S-Aware |
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| Annual compliance exercise | Foundation for continuous knowledge building |
| Passive content consumption | Interactive scenario-based learning |
| Generic awareness | Relevant security and privacy learning |
| Limited Learner Interaction | Knowledge checks and assessments |
| Difficult to measure understanding | Progress tracking and assessments insights |
| Standalone Training Activity | Part of a wider Security Behaviour and Culture ecosystem |
S-Aware is SucceedLEARN's security and privacy awareness elearning solution and the foundational training layer of the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite.
It helps organisations build essential cybersecurity knowledge across their workforce through practical, engaging and scenario-based learning. S-Aware can be used as a standalone awareness solution or as the starting point for a broader programme combining microlearning, phishing simulations, gamification, visual reinforcement and behavioural measurement.
Security awareness training helps employees understand cybersecurity risks and the actions they can take to protect organisational information, systems and data.
Effective awareness training goes beyond explaining policies. It helps employees recognise risks such as phishing and social engineering, understand responsible information-handling practices, and make more informed security decisions during everyday work.
S-Aware is designed for organisations that want to build cybersecurity and privacy awareness across their workforce.
The programme can be managed by teams including Information Security, Cybersecurity, Compliance, Risk, Learning & Development and HR.
S-Aware provides a growing library of security, privacy and compliance awareness learning.
Depending on the selected courses and programme requirements, topics can include information security, phishing and social engineering, password and account security, data protection and privacy, malware awareness, remote working, information handling, incident reporting and other relevant cybersecurity topics.
Organisations can select learning based on their security priorities, workforce requirements and applicable compliance obligations.
S-Aware can support security awareness initiatives associated with recognised information security, privacy and compliance frameworks, depending on the courses selected and the organisation's specific requirements.
These include awareness requirements associated with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, FERPA and PCI DSS.
Organisations should assess their specific regulatory and compliance obligations when determining the training required for their workforce.
Yes. Depending on the agreed scope, S-Aware learning can be customised to reflect relevant organisational requirements.
Customisation may include branding, internal policies, processes, terminology, examples, reporting procedures or other organisation-specific information.
Yes. Organisations with an existing Learning Management System can use SCORM-compatible S-Aware content for deployment through their own LMS, subject to the selected licensing and implementation model.
Yes. S-Aware supports tracking of relevant learning activity such as course participation, completion, progress and assessment performance depending on the deployment configuration.
Organisations using the wider SBCS ecosystem can combine awareness-related information with additional programme data through S-Metrics for broader visibility into security awareness activity.
S-Aware establishes foundational security knowledge, while the other SBCS solutions help organisations reinforce, test, engage, measure and connect the broader awareness programme.
S-Bytes provides microlearning reinforcement, S-Phish tests phishing resilience, S-Play introduces gamified learning, S-Signs provides visual reinforcement, S-Metrics supports programme measurement, and S-Sync connects the ecosystem with relevant organisational technology.
Together, they enable organisations to move from standalone awareness training towards continuous security behaviour and culture development.
Yes. Organisations can use S-Aware as their security awareness learning solution without implementing the entire Security Behaviour & Culture Suite.
For organisations seeking a broader behaviour-change programme, S-Aware can also serve as the foundational layer upon which additional SBCS capabilities such as microlearning, phishing simulations, gamification, visual reinforcement and analytics can be added.
Security awareness should do more than help organisations meet annual compliance requirements. It should equip employees with the confidence to recognise cyber threats, make informed decisions, and contribute to a stronger security culture every day.
S-Aware gives organisations the foundation to move from training employees about security towards building a workforce that understands security.
Discover how S-Aware can become the foundation of your organisation's broader Security Behaviour & Culture strategy.