Data security & phishing awareness

The most common way an organisation gets breached isn't a sophisticated hack; it's an ordinary person clicking a convincing email on a busy morning. Attackers have learned that the easiest door is human attention under pressure, which is why a few seconds of healthy suspicion is now genuinely part of the job. The good news is that spotting the common tricks is a quick, learnable skill.

Why this subject matters

When security awareness is thin, one rushed click can expose an entire organisation, and the person who clicked is almost never careless: just human, busy, and faced with a message engineered to look real. Industry reporting, such as Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report, has consistently found that a large share of breaches involve a human element rather than a pure technical failure, which is precisely why attackers keep aiming there.

This is hard because modern phishing is designed to slip past exactly the kind of quick judgement people make when they're moving fast. The fake invoice, the urgent request from the "boss," the login page that looks right: these work because they're built to. Falling for a well-made one isn't a sign of carelessness; it's a sign that the attacker did their job well, which is why awareness, not blame, is the answer.

It matters for everyone with a work account, but especially for distributed teams where IT support is remote and the first line of defence is the person at the keyboard. A short training that builds the reflex to pause and check turns the most-targeted weakness into a reliable safeguard.

Structure and types of content in the template

On Eli, every template is a one-to-two-week training or engagement program that takes each participant only a few minutes a day. These programs draw on three types of content: questions, memos, and actions. Questions invite employees to share their point of view on a subject, either to poll them anonymously or to get them thinking about a habit they might have. Memos are small knowledge nuggets that take a few seconds to read, may feature an infographic or an educational video, and always come with a quiz. Actions are concrete steps employees can put into practice during their day, either with their team or on their own in the field.

By bringing these three types of content together, Eli creates an efficient, complete training cycle in which employees question, learn, and practice, all within a single training sprint, and in record time.

What makes it different from a standard training

Nobody chases after safety, compliance, or policy training. It doesn't excite anyone, and—let's be honest—it rarely changes much. So we push it as hard as we have to and tell ourselves a completion rate will cover us if something goes wrong. But this stuff is everyone's responsibility, and how well it actually lands can be the difference when a crisis hits. With this template on Eli, the topics people dread turn into a shared, genuinely fun quest for the practices that matter. Teams question, discover, and try things together, and notions that would've died in a PDF become an experience that sparks curiosity, gets people acting and reacting, and actually sticks.

How to get the most out of it

Our templates are a very good place to start, but using them as-is will only get you about 60% of the result you're hoping for. To genuinely move the needle with your teams, you'll need to fine-tune them to your exact needs, your company culture, your internal policies, and more.

On Eli, all you have to do is hand that off to our AI agent, which takes care of everything: explain what you want in a few words, upload any documents it needs, and our agent does the rest.

If you'd like a better sense of how our platform works and want to make sure it fits your needs, book a meeting with one of our experts!

What's inside

The 10-second phishing check: sender, link, request, urgency
The 10-second phishing check: sender, link, request, urgencyMemo
Turn on two-factor authentication for one work account today
Turn on two-factor authentication for one work account todayAction
Find the phishing report button or mailbox, then share it with your team
Find the phishing report button or mailbox, then share it with your teamAction
What makes a suspicious message easy to miss during a busy workday?
What makes a suspicious message easy to miss during a busy workday?Poll

Frequently asked questions