Securing the human layer

Technology alone does not stop modern cyber threats.
Most breaches begin with human interaction — a convincing email, a voice call, a message that appears routine or executive deep fake but is carefully engineered to exploit trust, urgency, or familiarity.

Suru helps security teams reduce human risk through hackathon-style experiences, curated content and AI native tools. Powered by Cybsocial, awareness is brought to life through hands-on experiences that prepare employees to recognise and resist social engineering threats that impact business value.

Awareness

Understand the attacks

Upskill

Strengthen under pressure

Reinforcement

Embed secure behaviours

Enablement

Scale beyond limitations

Awareness

Awareness matters, but passive training fails.
It's the foundation of human-layer defence, but awareness alone is not enough.

Suru uses realistic simulations and event-led experiences to expose employees to real social engineering tactics, showing how attacks unfold and escalate. The result is practical awareness that's highly memorable, built through experience — not slides or theory.

Upskill

Developing judgement under pressure.
Social engineering attacks rarely look like textbook examples. They are contextual, time-sensitive, and designed to feel legitimate.

Suru helps to upskill employees by strengthening their decision-making in real-world conditions. Teams practise identifying weak signals, questioning assumptions, and responding appropriately when something does not feel right.

For security leaders, this builds organisational resilience, not just knowledge recall.

Reinforcement

One-time training does not change behaviour. Secure posture is built through repetition and reinforcement, with ever changing scenarios.

Suru provides ongoing exposure to evolving attack techniques, ensuring that awareness and skills remain current, as threats change.

This reinforcement helps transform security from a compliance exercise into a shared responsibility employees enjoy engaging with.

Enablement

Enabling the awareness cybersecurity journey for teams at scale. Security teams must reduce risks without slowing the business. Human-layer defence needs to be practical, measurable, and effective.

Suru helps security leaders to:

• Reinforce behaviours without extra operational burden

• Align awareness initiatives to real-world threats

• Enhance the engagement and curate the delivery for real outcomes

INTERACTIVE, NEVER PASSIVE

Designed to meet ten core elements to deliver real change

> What does Suru do that others don't?
Make it real and bring it to life. Only by creating either hyper realistic situations employees of today will appreciate, will it create behvioural change. Spaced repetition via a campaign motion that is made up of different exposures and experiences for highly memorable and defensive strategies. Find us one employee that really enjoyed skipping through their annual compliance e-learning security module!

> Describe the employee experience at a cyber hackathon?
The experience varies as each is bespoke to your organisation. The experience immerses employees in a fast-paced, interactive simulation where nothing is quite as it seems. Over a few hours, participants receive piecemeal clues through deepfakes, emails, messages, virtual briefings and optional face-to-face interactions. Some information is helpful; some is deliberately misleading. Teams must collaborate, question assumptions and spot manipulation. Are they being tricked, breached, or socially engineered? As the narrative unfolds, employees experience first-hand how attackers exploit trust, urgency and curiosity—building practical awareness through discovery rather than instruction.

> What is Cybsocial and how does it link to Suru?
Suru runs impactful hackathons and experiences for teams across Cyber, Tech, Marketing and beyond. Cybsocial, Suru’s security awareness arm, is a free resource for cybersecurity professionals to help their organisations prepare for the next social engineering attack in any form. It offers crafted learning content, tools to build bespoke material, case study analysis, phishing and cyber hackathon designs, security awareness campaign assets, plus deepfake detection for audio, video and images to continuously assess threats.

> How do I access?
Cybsocial is a complementary resource, our hackathons are a paid service. Given over 70% of cyber attacks start at the human layer, there’s no better way to better the weakest link in the chain than through immersive, attention-grabbing experiences.

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