Cybersecurity threats, especially phishing, evolve daily. Yet many organisations still rely on once-a-year awareness training sessions, hoping they will be enough to protect users from increasingly sophisticated attacks.

While such sessions can raise initial awareness, they rarely translate into lasting behavioural change. Attackers, on the other hand, are innovating constantly, leveraging AI-generated content, deepfake audio, and convincing social engineering tactics that bypass static defences.

The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report highlights that phishing is among the top causes of breaches worldwide, with a significant proportion tied to human error. One-off training leaves large gaps between learning events, allowing users to forget key security behaviours within weeks.

This phenomenon, known as the “forgetting curve,” is why the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advises that security awareness be reinforced regularly through varied, realistic exercises.

Static, generic e-learning modules fail to account for the evolving nature of phishing threats. Threat actors adapt their approaches, meaning last year’s examples are often irrelevant today. Without continuous reinforcement, employees are left unprepared when a realistic phishing attempt lands in their inbox.

This not only increases the likelihood of a successful attack but also undermines an organisation’s compliance position, as regulators and cyber insurers increasingly expect demonstrable ongoing training.

Phishing Security and User Assessment Training (PSUAT) is built to address the limitations of static awareness programmes:

• Continuous, realistic simulations that mirror real-world phishing attacks.
• Role-specific learning paths are designed around each user’s exposure and responsibilities.
• Adaptive training content that evolves with current threat intelligence.
• Performance analytics to measure improvement and highlight vulnerable groups.

PSUAT replaces one-off awareness sessions with ongoing simulations that keep employees vigilant and behaviours sharp.

• Watch this Video:: How Phishing Simulations Improve Cyber Resilience to see industry experts explain how ongoing simulations drive lasting behavioural change.
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Don’t settle for once-a-year training that fades from memory.