How We Organize Training Content with Series and Topics
To make it easier to find, use, and evaluate content, the catalogue is structured using series and topics.
How it works: Series and Topics
Each serves a different purpose and supports you in planning awareness training and following progress over time.
- Series explain the role and purpose of the content. Our series include Essentials and Stories.
- Topics help you search, filter, and evaluate results by topic. Examples of topics are "phishing" or "personal data".
Used together, series and topics make it easier to plan training, find relevant content, and understand awareness levels across key topics.
What is a Series?
Series is a way of grouping content by its purpose and learning approach. It helps you understand how a training is meant to be used in your awareness program.
CyberPilot currently offers three series: Essentials, Stories and Threat Alerts.
Essentials
Essentials form the foundation of your awareness training. They cover core topics within cyber security, GDPR, and compliance that are relevant for most employees across your organization.
The goal of Essentials is to build a strong foundation of knowledge and awareness that helps your employees act securely and responsibly in their daily work.
Essentials are typically used as the primary training content and rolled out broadly.
Stories
Stories convey real people’s personal experiences with cybersecurity challenges. They bring topics to life and share practical advice.
Stories build upon existing knowledge and assume the user is already familiar with the basic concepts such as phishing. They help employees reflect on real-life situations and navigate grey areas in practice, as a supplement to Essentials.
Threat Alerts
Threat Alerts are short, timely heads-up on specific cyberattacks, scams, and threats currently in circulation - no story, no quiz, just straight to the point. Where Essentials and Stories cover lasting, general knowledge, Threat Alerts are built for speed and timeliness: keeping employees aware of what's happening right now, as it happens.
What is a topic?
A topic identifies the main theme of a training and is used across all series.
Examples of topics include:
- Personal data
- Data handling
- Remote work
- Phishing
- Passwords
- Artificial intelligence
- Online security
How can topics be used?
Topics make the catalogue easier to navigate via applying filters.
Filtering
You can filter content by topic. This makes it easy to find all content related to a specific risk area, regardless of whether it’s an Essential or a Story.
Measuring awareness by topic
Topics also make it possible to view results in the quiz by topic in the analytics dashboard.
By looking at quiz scores connected to a specific topic, you can get an overview of how well the organization is performing on a given topic, for example:
- How strong are we on phishing?
- How well do employees understand data handling?