Turn Your Team Into a Line of Defense With Security Awareness Training

Short, practical training teaches your team to spot scams, protect their logins and handle data safely, with refreshers that keep up as threats change.

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Security Awareness Training Explained

What Is Security Awareness Training?

Security awareness training teaches employees the habits that keep a business safe: recognizing scams, protecting passwords and accounts, handling sensitive data and reporting anything suspicious. Most successful attacks rely on someone being rushed or tricked, and attackers change their methods constantly, so a single session at hiring is quickly forgotten.

BCA provides ongoing training that's short, practical and based on real examples, backed by phishing simulations that show where extra help is needed. Training is included in every BCA plan, and your team can always check a suspicious message with us before acting on it.

Annual training

One long session a year that most people have forgotten by the next one.

Ongoing training

Short, regular lessons and simulations that build habits over time.

How Security Awareness Training Helps Your Business

Habits

Staff pause and check before clicking, paying or sharing, even when a message looks urgent.

Reporting

Suspicious messages get reported early, so one person's catch protects everyone.

Accounts

Strong passwords and MFA become routine, which makes stolen logins far less useful.

Data

Customer and company information is handled and shared the right way.

Records

Training records support what insurers, clients and rules like the FTC Safeguards Rule ask for.

Culture

Security becomes part of how your team works, not a once-a-year chore.

Scope

What's Included in Our Security Awareness Training

Good training covers more than phishing and keeps going after the first session. BCA combines lessons, simulations and follow-up so your team keeps building safe habits as threats change. Security awareness training is included in every BCA plan.

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Training for New Hires

New employees learn the basics in their first days, before risky habits have a chance to form.

Onboarding

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Short, Regular Lessons

Brief lessons through the year that fit into a workday and keep security top of mind.

Lessons

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Phishing Simulations

Realistic test emails show who might click, so follow-up training goes where it's needed most.

Simulations

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Passwords, MFA and Accounts

How to create strong passwords, use a password manager and approve MFA prompts safely.

Accounts

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Scams Beyond Email

Texts, phone calls, Teams messages and fake invoices use the same tricks, and training covers them all.

Social Engineering

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Progress Reporting

Completion and simulation results show how your team is improving and give you records for insurers and auditors.

Reporting

Our Approach

Why Businesses Choose BCA for Security Awareness Training

Training works best when it comes from the team that also protects your systems. BCA has supported businesses for 37 years and sees the scams that reach our clients, so training reflects what your team is actually facing.

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Included in Every Plan

Security awareness training is included in every BCA plan, starting with Foundation at $65 per user per month.

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A Team You Can Ask

Trained staff know who to call. Anyone can check a suspicious message with the BCA team that supports them every day before acting on it.

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Training Backed by Protection

Training is one layer. Email protection, endpoint detection and response, and managed detection and response, also in every plan, catch what people miss.

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Years in business

98%

Client retention

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Average response time

100+

Businesses supported

FAQ

Common Questions About Security Awareness Training

Here are the questions businesses ask most often about training their teams to stay safe.

Very little. Lessons are short enough to fit between other work, usually a few minutes each, so training doesn't pull people away from their jobs for long. Simulations take no time at all unless someone clicks, in which case they get a short follow-up lesson.

Everyone who uses a company email account or device, including owners and managers. Executives and staff who handle payments, payroll or sensitive data are targeted most often, so they benefit the most. Part-time staff, seasonal workers and contractors with access to your systems should be included too.

Phishing is a big part of it, but training also covers password and MFA habits, fake invoices and payment fraud, safe handling of customer and company data, working securely from home or on public Wi-Fi and the safe use of AI tools. Topics are refreshed as new scams appear.

That's what simulations are for. Repeat clicks show who needs more help, so they get extra short training rather than blame. Most people improve quickly once they know what to look for, and results by person or team let you see that progress.

Yes. Filters catch most malicious email, but some messages are designed to slip past them, and scams also arrive by text, phone and chat where an email filter can't help. Training covers the gap between what technology catches and what reaches a person.

Often, yes. Many cyber insurance applications ask whether staff get regular security training and phishing tests, and some insurers ask for proof. Completion records and simulation results give you an accurate answer and the evidence to back it up.

Training is included in every BCA plan, so it starts as part of onboarding with BCA. We set up your team, send a baseline phishing simulation to see where things stand and then begin regular lessons. New hires are added as they join.

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