How to Set Up a Cyber Security Champions Programme

The ultimate guide to becoming a successful champion leader


Do you want to...

✅ scale up awareness-raising?

increase incident reporting?

understand how different teams feel about cyber security?

more effectively manage human risk in your organisation?

✅ positively influence a people-centric cyber security culture?

If the answer to any of the above is "yes", then a cyber security champions programme is for you!

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A champions programme is a great way to positively influence cyber security culture, but they take time to develop and too often can fizzle out.

Perhaps you're concerned that you don’t have the time or the experience to build a programme from scratch. That’s where our course comes in.

At Cygenta, we support many different clients with their champions programmes, helping some establish their programmes from scratch and supporting others to reinvigorate established programmes. We know the hard work that goes into building an effective champions programme and we’ve tackled the pitfalls that can arise. This course is the culmination of many years work with clients around the world.


How to Run a Cyber Security Champions Programme is the ultimate guide to becoming a successful champion leader.


In this course, we equip you with everything you need to build and run a sustainable, successful cyber security champions network from scratch.

Our course will help you...

🏆 build a champions programme that fits your organisation

🏆 find, recruit & incentivise champions

🏆 mitigate potential pitfalls

🏆 understand the skills base of your network and help your champions skill up

🏆 establish metrics to identify obstacles & track your success

🏆 run meetings, workshops and train-the-trainer awareness

sessions with your champions

...and so much more!


Why is this the ultimate guide to becoming a cyber security champion leader?


Manage human risk


Scale your awareness-raising, build secure

behaviours and positively influence security culture.


Facilitate communications


Amplify your messages and hear more about

security from across your organisation.

Build a Security Community


Inspire a network of engaged people to be your

security sensors

Course Curriculum

13 videos plus text, slides, images and more

25 resources to download and keep including templates, posters and exercises

28 milestones to achieve with step-by-step guidance

  Getting Started
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  Mapping Your Champions Programme
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  Aim, Objectives and Initial Metrics
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  Incentives and Challenges
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  Recruiting Champions
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  Bringing Your Champions Together
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  Build Your Brand
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  Champion Workshop
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  Skilling Up
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  Champions Launch with their Teams
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  Bonus Awareness Raising Content
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Your Instructor

Dr Jessica Barker

Dr Jess is a global cyber security expert, bestselling author,

entrepreneur and speaker.

She is widely recognised as the go-to expert for cyber security awareness, behaviour and culture - with over 10 years experience working with organisations around the world. She has helped many Cygenta clients set up, run (and restart!) successful and sustainable cyber security champion programmes. Now she is sharing that expertise with you.