Security Awareness Training.
Employees Who Don't Click the Bait.
74% of breaches involve human error. Your firewall can't stop an employee who hands over credentials. Security Awareness Training turns your people, your biggest vulnerability, into an active layer of defense through recurring training and real-world phishing simulations that change behavior.
Managed training. Not a platform you're left to figure out.
Four capabilities, one accountable team.
Baseline Assessment
Before training starts, Aureon measures where your employees actually stand. Every organization gets a susceptibility score and a department-level risk map that shows exactly where the human-layer exposure is concentrated. That baseline drives the training plan, not a generic template.
Training Campaigns
Short, focused training modules go out every month, not a single annual video employees click through and forget. Aureon handles enrollment, scheduling, and delivery so recurring exposure keeps phishing recognition sharp without creating work for your team.
Phishing Simulations
Simulations are crafted to match actual attack patterns in circulation, not generic tests that are easy to spot. Employees who click see an immediate teaching moment, and you get reports on who opened the email, clicked a link, or provided information.
Progress Reporting
Automated reporting tracks enrollment, completion, and simulation results across every employee. Quarterly executive reviews give leadership a clear picture. When auditors or insurers ask for documentation, it's already organized and ready, not something to scramble for at renewal.
Your employees are the most targeted layer in your security stack.
Attackers don't need a technical exploit when a single phishing email will do. Ongoing, managed training closes the gap between what employees know and what attackers are actually doing right now.
Without a baseline test, you have no idea, and neither do your employees. Most organizations discover their susceptibility rate only after a real incident.
Aureon runs a baseline phishing simulation before training begins so you get an actual susceptibility score, not an assumption. That score drives the program, not a generic template.
A single annual video doesn't. Employees click through it and forget it by February. Training that runs once a year measures compliance, not behavior change.
Aureon delivers short monthly modules and repeated phishing simulations. Recurring exposure is what moves click rates down, organizations on continuous programs see up to a 3.4× reduction compared to one-time training.
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and CMMC all include human-factor controls. Cyber insurance applications now ask specifically about training programs, and without documentation, you're exposed on both fronts.
Aureon maintains completion records, simulation results, and program history throughout the year. When your auditor or insurer asks, the documentation is already organized and ready.
Download & Learn More
Resources to evaluate Security Awareness Training, build the business case, and understand what a managed program looks like in practice.
Security Awareness Training Overview
A one-page summary of what Aureon's managed SAT program covers, what's included, and who it's built for.
Download PDFPhishing Defense: What Actually Changes Behavior
Why annual training fails, and what recurring simulation-based programs do differently.
Read the GuideCyber Insurance & Compliance Readiness Checklist
The training and documentation requirements insurance underwriters and auditors ask for.
View the ChecklistWhat changes when training is actually managed.
Any vendor can sell you a training platform. What most don't provide is someone who runs it: simulations launched, content updated, users enrolled, results reviewed. That's the difference.
Click any row to see why it matters.
| Aureon Managed SAT | Annual / Self-Managed Training | |
|---|---|---|
| Training frequency | ✓ Monthly sessions, every employee | Once a year, if it happens |
| Phishing simulations | ✓ Regular, real-world scenarios | Rarely configured or run |
| Content updates | ✓ Updated to match current threats | Static, same content year over year |
| User enrollment & management | ✓ Managed by Aureon | Manual, easy to let lapse |
| Phishing report button | ✓ Deployed to every inbox | Not included |
| Executive reporting | ✓ Quarterly reviews with leadership | No reporting |
| Compliance documentation | ✓ Ready for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, CMMC | No audit trail |
| Who manages it | ✓ Dedicated Aureon team | You, or whoever you can find |
* Annual/self-managed training characteristics represent typical SMB environments without a dedicated security awareness program manager.
A Partner Built for Your Business
Turn your employees into your strongest defense with training, realistic phishing simulations, and a fully managed program that reduces risk without adding work to your team.
Local Experts, Real Support
Work with a trusted Iowa-based team that knows your business.
Training That Stays Ahead of Threats
Current, real-world phishing simulations and security education that evolve with today's attacks.
Audit & Compliance Ready
Training records and reporting organized and available whenever you need them.
Fully Managed for You
We handle enrollment, scheduling, reminders, and reporting so you don't have to.
Measurable Risk Reduction
Track improvements in employee behavior and reduced phishing susceptibility over time.
One Trusted Security Partner
Security Awareness Training backed by 40+ years of helping organizations stay protected.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Security awareness training is an ongoing program that teaches employees how to recognize and respond to cyber threats, particularly phishing, social engineering, and business email compromise. It matters because 74% of data breaches involve human error, and no technical control can stop an employee who hands over credentials or clicks a malicious link. Aureon's managed program uses real-world phishing simulations and recurring monthly sessions to build recognition that actually changes behavior over time.
A training platform gives you tools. Aureon's managed program runs the program: enrolling users, scheduling and launching phishing simulations, updating content, delivering monthly training sessions, and producing reports for leadership. Most organizations that buy a platform find it becomes one more thing nobody has time to manage. Aureon handles the operational work, so you get the risk reduction without adding a new responsibility to your team.
Aureon delivers training in short monthly sessions, typically a few minutes each, rather than a single annual course. Research consistently shows that spaced, recurring training produces far better retention and behavior change than infrequent long sessions. Phishing simulations are run on a separate schedule to test recognition in employees' real email environments. The combination is what drives the click-rate reductions the data shows.
Aureon sends simulated phishing emails to employees, crafted to reflect the kinds of attacks your organization is most likely to face, including credential harvesting pages, invoice scams, and fake IT requests. Employees who click or interact are immediately redirected to a brief teaching moment explaining what gave it away. Results are tracked over time, so you can see whether click rates are declining, and which employee groups may need additional attention.
Yes, and those employees are often the most important to reach. Training content is designed to be accessible to non-technical users, focused on practical recognition skills rather than technical concepts. The monthly sessions are short and jargon-free. Phishing simulations expose the behavioral cues that indicate a threat: the sense of urgency, the mismatched sender, the unexpected request, in a way that applies regardless of technical background.
Security awareness training directly addresses human-factor controls in HIPAA (workforce training requirements), PCI-DSS (security awareness for personnel with access to cardholder data), SOC 2 (logical access and security awareness controls), and CMMC (awareness and training domain). Aureon maintains completion records, simulation results, and program documentation that serve as direct compliance evidence, so you're not reconstructing your training history when a review arrives.
No, and it shouldn't be positioned that way. Security awareness training addresses the human layer; it works alongside your firewall, email filtering, MFA, and endpoint protection, not instead of them. The value is that it closes the gap those tools can't address: the employee who is socially engineered into bypassing controls, forwarding credentials, or approving a fraudulent wire transfer. A layered security posture includes both the technology and the people.
Aureon tracks phishing simulation click rates over time, the primary indicator of whether training is actually changing behavior. Additional metrics include employee reporting rates (are employees using the phishing button?), knowledge assessment scores, and training completion rates by department. Quarterly executive reporting provides a clear picture of risk reduction trends. The goal is to show measurable progress, not just confirm that training happened.
Most organizations are fully enrolled and running their first phishing simulation within one to two weeks of engagement. Aureon handles onboarding: importing your user list, configuring the platform, deploying the phishing report button, and setting up the initial campaign schedule. There is no lengthy implementation or technical integration required. The priority is getting employees into the program quickly, because the risk is present now.
