Education & Training
Security culture is built, not bought.
Your organization has done cyber training. Probably every year. An off-the-shelf module that takes 20 minutes and ends with a quiz nobody fails. The completion report goes to compliance, the certificates go to the auditor, and the next quarter, someone clicks the phishing link anyway.
Training that doesn't change behaviour isn't training. It's documentation.
The strongest cyber control in any organization is an informed workforce — but "informed" means something different at every level. Boards need to understand fiduciary risk. Executives need to make business decisions under pressure. Managers need to spot warning signs. Front-line staff need to know what to do when something doesn't feel right. One module can't do all of that.
What a Magenta training engagement looks like
We design and deliver cybersecurity training that changes how people make decisions — not just what they can recite on a quiz. Every program starts with a conversation about what your workforce needs to know, decide, and do. From there, we build content that lands: real cases, current threat intelligence, sector-specific scenarios, and discussion-led delivery that pulls participants into the material instead of pushing slides at them.
We don't recycle decks across clients. Every engagement is custom.
Training programs we deliver
Board and executive awareness sessions — fiduciary obligations, board reporting expectations, regulatory landscape, and decision-making under incident conditions.
Manager-level cyber literacy — recognition, escalation, response, and team-level culture.
Staff cyber awareness — phishing, social engineering, data handling, password and authentication hygiene, incident reporting.
AI governance and responsible use — what's allowed, what isn't, where the risks are, and how to use AI tools safely.
Privacy and data handling — Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA, FIPPA, PHIPA), data classification, and practical handling rules.
Incident response readiness — tabletop-style learning with deeper teaching layered in.
Crisis communications — holding statements, media handling, stakeholder messaging, and the journalism perspective on what makes a cyber story explode vs. fade.
Custom programs — for technical teams, security teams, specific business units, or sector-specific obligations.
Delivery formats
In-person workshops (Toronto and travel where appropriate)
Live virtual sessions
Blended programs combining live delivery with reinforcement materials
Multi-session series for sustained behaviour change
Train-the-trainer programs to build internal capability
Our methodology
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STEP 04
Who this is for
Boards and executive teams who recognize that cyber literacy at the top sets the ceiling for the rest of the organization.
Public sector leaders running regular awareness cycles, onboarding programs, or sector-specific training mandates.
Non-profits and SMBs that have done off-the-shelf training and want something that lands.
Organizations rolling out AI tools and needing staff guidance before the next "someone-put-it-in-ChatGPT" incident.
Any organization whose last incident traced back to a decision someone should have known better than to make.
What you walk away with
A workforce that recognizes the threats your sector faces
Decision-making frameworks your team can use under pressure
Documented training program appropriate for audit, regulatory, or insurance evidence
A measurable shift in how your people handle cyber moments
Reinforcement materials your team can use after the formal sessions end
Optional: train-the-trainer capability so future sessions can be delivered internally
Why Magenta for training
We've spent 20+ years in the rooms where the decisions happen — at the operations level, at the executive table, in incidents in progress. Through our partner network, we also bring specialized capability most cyber consultancies can't match, including crisis communications training led by a senior broadcast journalist with two decades in Canada's largest newsrooms.
Training is only as good as the people delivering it. We deliver ours.
Training on AI use lands best alongside real policy. See AI Governance for the policy and risk-framework side of the same problem.
Needs Assessment
Working session with your leadership team. What does your workforce need to know, decide, and do? What incidents or near-misses have you had? Where's the gap between what people should do and what they do?
Custom Design
We build content, scenarios, and exercises mapped to your organization. Sector-specific cases. Realistic decision points. Every piece of content has a purpose.
Delivery
Interactive, discussion-led, and grounded in real cases. We facilitate; we don't lecture. Participants leave having made decisions out loud — that's what changes behaviour.
Measurement
Knowledge retention assessment, behaviour-change indicators, and follow-through tracking where the engagement supports it. We're realistic about what training can and can't measure — but we don't hide behind that.
