Operations & People
Security awareness training in India is mostly a compliance artefact: an annual module, a completion certificate, and no measurable change in what anyone does. It satisfies an auditor and it does not survive contact with a convincing email on a Friday afternoon.
Training changes behaviour when it is specific to the person's job, short enough to be absorbed, practised rather than watched, and reinforced through the year rather than delivered once. A developer needs different content from an accounts payable clerk, who needs different content from an executive whose identity gets impersonated.
We assess where the gaps actually are, build a role-specific programme, run interactive sessions rather than slide decks, and measure whether behaviour moved, using phishing simulation as the instrument. The completion certificate still gets issued; it is a by-product rather than the objective.
Why you need it
01 / 06A module covering passwords, phishing and clean desks for everyone tells a developer nothing about dependency confusion and a finance clerk nothing about invoice fraud. The content people actually need is role-specific, and it is the part that gets omitted.
Security knowledge decays within weeks without reinforcement. A programme concentrated into one annual sitting is providing evidence of training, not capability, and everyone involved knows it.
Recognising a phishing example in a training video and recognising one in your own inbox during a busy morning are different skills. Only the second one matters, and only practice builds it.
Where security makes a job harder, staff invent a route around it: a shared password, a personal cloud account, a forwarded document. Training that ignores this loses; training that surfaces it fixes the control instead.
Instrument
02 / 06One is a phish. Pick it, and every message shows its tells, the same format the training uses, and the same instrument that measures it afterwards.
What we deliver
03 / 06Where awareness actually stands: a baseline phishing simulation, a knowledge check, and, more revealing than either, a look at the workarounds in daily use, which tell you where controls are fighting the job.
Core content for everyone, then tailored modules: secure development and dependency risk for engineers, payment and invoice fraud for finance, data handling and consent for HR and marketing, vendor risk for procurement, and targeted-impersonation awareness for executives.
Live sessions built around real scenarios and current incidents rather than slide decks, with participants making decisions and seeing the consequences. Delivered on site or remotely, in sessions short enough that people stay in the room.
Regular simulation as the practice mechanism and the measurement instrument, with immediate teaching at the moment of a mistake and follow-up aimed at where the data says the risk concentrates.
Short, frequent sessions on the obligations that apply to specific roles: DPDP Act and GDPR handling duties, ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 control responsibilities, internal policy changes, delivered as micro-learning rather than as an annual sitting.
Completion and knowledge scores for the audit file, and behavioural metrics for you: reporting rates, susceptibility trends by department, incident volume and (the one that matters most) whether people report their own mistakes.
How we run it
04 / 06Current awareness measured through baseline simulation and knowledge checks, plus interviews to find where security friction is producing workarounds. The findings shape the curriculum rather than confirming a standard one.
Weeks 1-2A programme mapped to roles, risk profile, sector and regulatory obligations, with a delivery calendar spread across the year instead of concentrated into one week.
Weeks 2-3Live sessions by role group, using scenarios from your own environment and recent incidents in your sector. Questions get answered by a person, which is the part e-learning cannot do.
Months 1-2Simulation as practice and as measurement, with immediate teaching moments and targeted follow-up where the data identifies a concentration of risk.
Ongoing, quarterlyShort micro-learning tied to the obligations of each role and to policy changes as they happen, so that awareness stays current between the larger sessions.
Ongoing, monthlyBehavioural metrics and completion evidence, a review of what moved and what did not, and adjustment of the following quarter's content accordingly.
QuarterlyKey benefits
05 / 06The single strongest indicator of a working security culture, and the thing that turns a click into a contained incident rather than a discovered one.
Role-specific material means engineers, finance and executives each get the threats aimed at them, which is why any of it is remembered.
Completion records for the auditor and behavioural metrics for you, so you can show whether awareness improved rather than only that training happened.
Tools we use
06 / 06No “latest tech tools”. These are the ones your report will cite, alongside the manual work that a tool cannot do for you.
Simulation and practice
Delivery
Role-specific content
Measurement
Compliance evidence
Why Aphelion
SharedDarshap Nayak, formerly of KPMG, holds a master’s degree in cybersecurity and more than seven years in security operations. Jaimin Somani brings fifteen-plus years of academic and hands-on VAPT. Hemang Desai is an ICT network specialist from Australia. You will meet them, not a logo.
Meet the teamEvery finding arrives with the reproduction steps, the affected asset and the fix, ranked by what it actually reaches in your environment, not by a CVSS number copied from a scanner. You get the report and the raw output, not a summary of a summary.
See how we testAhmedabad and Sharjah, working the same methodology on the same tooling. Indian data-residency requirements and UAE delivery are both ordinary here, and the AphelioNYX AD Pen-Test module runs entirely inside your perimeter when regulation says it must.
The platformInvent a statistic to make a slide land. Publish your name as a client without written permission. Print an award badge nobody awarded. Founded in 2024. We say so, and we attribute experience to the people who have it.
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AphelioNYX is SOC 2, ISO and GDPR compliant; attestations are available on request under NDA. We would rather hand you the report than print a badge.
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