Cyber resilience training
Building awareness, accountability and cyber-safe behaviour
Cyber resilience depends on people as much as technology. Effective training helps employees, management and boards understand cyber risks, recognise threats, respond appropriately and support a stronger security culture.
Forvis Mazars in Malta provides practical cyber resilience training for organisations of all sizes and sectors. Our programmes can be tailored for employees, management, boards, IT teams and security teams, combining awareness, role-based learning, phishing simulations, executive briefings and incident response exercises.
Our approach is aligned with recognised cybersecurity expectations, including NIS2, DORA, ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST guidance. NIS2 places emphasis on management accountability, cyber hygiene and cybersecurity training, while DORA requires ICT security awareness and digital operational resilience training for financial entities. ISO/IEC 27001 promotes a holistic approach covering people, policies and technology, and NIST guidance encourages learning programmes that support behaviour change, risk management and security culture.
How we can help
We provide cyber resilience training across the following areas:
- Cybersecurity awareness training — practical sessions covering common threats, secure working practices, phishing, social engineering, passwords, MFA, data handling and incident reporting.
- Phishing simulations — controlled campaigns to test awareness, identify risky behaviours and provide targeted follow-up learning.
- Role-based training — tailored sessions for finance, HR, operations, IT, developers, administrators, incident handlers and other higher-risk roles.
- Executive and board briefings — concise workshops on cyber risk, governance, accountability, resilience, incident response and regulatory expectations.
- Incident response exercises — tabletop scenarios to test escalation, decision-making, crisis communication and recovery arrangements.
- Regulatory readiness training — focused sessions on NIS2, DORA, ISO/IEC 27001, cyber hygiene, third-party risk and operational resilience where relevant.
- Security culture initiatives — awareness campaigns, refresher sessions, practical guidance and reporting metrics to support continuous improvement.
Our approach
1. Assess
We identify the audience, risk profile, regulatory context, key behaviours and priority topics.
2. Design
We build practical content for the right audience, from employee awareness to board-level cyber risk discussions.
3. Deliver
Training can be delivered as workshops, short awareness sessions, role-based modules, phishing simulations or executive briefings.
4. Exercise
We use realistic scenarios and tabletop exercises to test escalation, decision-making, communication and response readiness.
5. Improve
We provide clear reporting, lessons learned and recommendations to help management strengthen awareness, controls and cyber culture over time.
Why Forvis Mazars
Forvis Mazars combines cyber security, IT assurance, risk consulting, governance and regulatory experience to deliver training that is practical, proportionate and business-focused.
Our programmes are designed to help participants understand what cyber risk means in their role, what behaviours are expected, when to escalate, and how their decisions affect the wider resilience of the organisation.
Need to strengthen cyber awareness and resilience?
Speak to Forvis Mazars in Malta about cybersecurity awareness training, phishing simulations, role-based programmes, executive briefings and incident response exercises tailored to your organisation.
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Juliet Penaranda IT Audit Manager - Birkirkara
Cyber security
Practical cyber resilience, governance and assurance support
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