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The goDeep Blog

Cybersecurity thinking, threat intelligence, and the psychology of security culture, written for the people who have to make it all work in the real world.

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Compliance & Governance · August 2026

Introducing New Training: Data Protection in Practice

An on-demand programme that helps staff and business leaders handle personal information the right way, covering privacy risks, individual rights, and breach response.

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Security Culture · May 2026

What Leadership Buy-In Actually Looks Like

Security culture doesn't start with a policy, it starts with leaders who visibly practise what they're asking everyone else to do.

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Company News · January 2026

Introducing - Cyber Security for Business Leaders

Our newest programme, Cyber Security in Business, is built for the people making the decisions, not just the people implementing the controls.

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Company News · October 2025

Introducing AI Training - Literacy for Employees

AI Literacy is goDeep's newest series: a plain-English look at how AI actually works, and how it's already being used against your team.

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Security Culture · August 2025

Why Short, Frequent Training Beats Annual Refreshers

A once-a-year training session fades from memory within weeks. Regular, bite-sized episodes keep security front of mind all year round.

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Compliance & Governance · July 2025

New Training Course Dropped! - Data Privacy and GDPR

Our newest course, Data Privacy and the GDPR, turns a compliance requirement into training people actually engage with.

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Phishing & Scams · June 2025

The damage created by Romance Scams

Romance scams have a second, less-visible set of victims, and understanding the full picture makes the warning signs harder to miss.

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Phishing & Scams · May 2025

Invoice Fraud: The Scam That Targets Your Finance Team

A convincing email, a familiar supplier name, and a changed bank account number is often all it takes to redirect a real payment.

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Security Culture · May 2025

Why Psychological Safety Matters for Incident Reporting

Staff who fear blame stay quiet about mistakes. A culture that rewards reporting catches incidents while they're still small.

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Security Culture · April 2025

Insider Risk Is a Team Sport

Insider risk isn't usually about malicious employees, it's about people being human, which means it's everyone's responsibility to manage.

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Threat Intelligence · April 2025

Briefing: Shadow IT in Small Businesses

The apps and tools your team signs up for without asking IT are a bigger risk than most small businesses realise. Here's how to spot it early.

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AI & Deepfakes · April 2025

🧠 The 9 New Rules of Social Media

Social media in the AI era isn't just a place to connect anymore, it's a stage where you can't always tell what's human.

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Security Culture · April 2025

We’re Too Impatient to Be Intelligent

Most successful cyberattacks don't beat a firewall, they beat the fast, instinctive way our brains make decisions under pressure.

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Phishing & Scams · April 2025

📞 Did someone just call you from my number?

Getting a call about a call you never made isn't a glitch, it's caller ID spoofing, and it's a lot more common than people realise.

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AI & Deepfakes · March 2025

AI in Recruitment: A Recruiter's guide to Spotting AI Fakes

AI-generated CVs, deepfake video interviews, and fabricated work histories are turning hiring fraud into a genuine security risk.

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Security Culture · March 2025

In Search of What Sticks: Security Behaviour Inspiration Pack!

What actually makes security training stick? A look at the behavioural science behind why some programmes work and most don't.

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Phishing & Scams · March 2025

Vishing: When the Phone Call Is the Attack

A confident voice, a plausible reason to act fast, and a request that sounds routine, vishing works because it feels ordinary.

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Security Culture · March 2025

Making Training Role-Specific, Not One-Size-Fits-All

Finance teams face different threats than the IT department. Training that reflects each role's real risks lands far better than a generic module.

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Security Culture · March 2025

12 Steps to Real Security Culture Change

Real security threats don't arrive as a neat list of bullet points, so why does most training still look like one?

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Phishing & Scams · March 2025

Step Into a Hacker’s Mind, Before They Step Into Your Inbox

Understanding how an attacker actually plans a phishing campaign makes their tactics far easier to spot before they land.

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Security Culture · March 2025

The 8 Biggest Challenges for Security Culture Managers

Managing security behaviour across a whole organisation is harder than pushing out training. Here's what makes the job genuinely difficult.

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Phishing & Scams · March 2025

The Rise of QR Code Scams (Quishing)

A poster, a parking meter, a menu, QR codes are everywhere, and scammers have noticed how rarely people question where they lead.

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AI & Deepfakes · March 2025

AI Auto-Diallers, Accent Translation, and the Future of Scams

AI-powered auto-dialling scams can now translate accents and adapt scripts in real time, making them far harder to spot on a first call.

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Phishing & Scams · March 2025

Pretexting: The Scam Built on a Believable Story

Before an attacker asks for anything, they build a story that makes the request feel completely normal.

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Security Culture · March 2025

Turning Completion Rates Into Real Behaviour Change

Finishing a course proves someone watched it, not that they'd recognise the same scam in their inbox. Measuring behaviour matters more than a certificate.

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Phishing & Scams · March 2025

When your saviour is actually the scammer: Security Awareness 101

A flood of spam followed by a helpful call from "IT support" isn't a coincidence, it's a well-worn social engineering script.

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Security Culture · March 2025

Security Awareness Rule No. 3 - Awareness is NOT Behaviour

Knowing the rules and following them under pressure are two completely different things, and most training only ever addresses the first.

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Security Culture · March 2025

Security Awareness Rule No. 2 - Make It Relevant and Impactful

Telling employees that cyber threats are serious doesn't change behaviour, showing them how an attack could personally affect their role does.

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Security Culture · March 2025

Security Awareness Rule No. 1 - Get (and Keep) Their Attention

Security training doesn't work if nobody's paying attention, and most training loses people within the first few minutes.

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Threat Intelligence · March 2025

When Free Software Steals More Than You Think -Security Awareness

Downloading a familiar-looking free tool from the wrong source is one of the easiest ways malware ends up on a work device.

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AI & Deepfakes · March 2025

Instant Insight, Precision Attacks: The New Era of AI- infosec iq

AI has collapsed the time it takes attackers to build a personalised, convincing profile of a target from hours to seconds.

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Company News · February 2025

From Training Fatigue to Security Culture: The goDeep Story

goDeep exists because most security awareness training is forgotten the moment it ends, we set out to build something that actually sticks.

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Security Culture · February 2025

Who's the security awareness rockstar that you can't live without

Every company has that one go-to tech expert who solves everything, and relying on them is a bigger risk than it feels like.

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Phishing & Scams · February 2025

SIM Swapping: How Scammers Hijack Your Phone Number

By convincing a mobile provider to move a number to a new SIM, an attacker can intercept the very codes meant to keep an account safe.

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Phishing & Scams · February 2025

Are people in your company still falling for phishing emails?

If staff keep falling for phishing emails, the problem usually isn't the staff, it's training that was never built to actually change behaviour.

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AI & Deepfakes · February 2025

📞 "Hello, This is Your Bank..." AI Agents are coming

AI voice agents can now run a full, natural-sounding bank impersonation call, no human scammer required on the other end.

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Security Culture · February 2025

Want to Stop Your Staff Falling for Scams?

Reducing how often staff fall for scams comes down to a handful of practical, repeatable habits, not a single training session.

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Security Culture · February 2025

The Role of Peer Influence in Security Culture

People take their cues from the colleagues around them. When security-conscious habits are visible day to day, they spread faster than any policy could.

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Phishing & Scams · January 2025

The Fake Job Offer Scam Targeting Job Seekers

A flattering message, a fast-moving process, and a request for personal details before any real interview happens.

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Security Culture · January 2025

Pickpockets operate here? The art of Priming

Pickpockets and scammers use the same psychological trick: priming a distraction before the moment that actually matters.

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Security Culture · January 2025

Why Story-Led Training Sticks Longer Than Slides

People remember what happened to a character far longer than they remember a bullet point. That's the premise behind story-driven training.

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Security Culture · January 2025

Building a Security-First Culture: Behavioural Change Programs

A security-first culture isn't built with a policy document, it's built the same way any other behaviour change happens: gradually, and with reinforcement.

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Company News · November 2024

Release of Fortress Finance - Security Training for Finance Teams

Fortress Finance is our newest module, built specifically for the people who move money, because attackers already know exactly who they are.

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Phishing & Scams · October 2024

Deepfake Voice Scams: When You Can't Trust the Call

A cloned voice reading from a script can now sound exactly like a colleague, a manager, or a family member asking for urgent help.

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Security Culture · September 2024

Cybersecurity Isn’t Just IT’s Problem

Every department is a potential attack vector, which means every employee is part of the security team, whether they realise it or not.

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Security Culture · August 2024

Stand United against Cyber Crime!

Scammers don't discriminate by industry or company size, which is exactly why a collective, shared approach to defence matters.

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Phishing & Scams · July 2024

Chris' Scam List: The MFA Bombing Scam Story

A phone buzzing with MFA approval requests at 11pm isn't a glitch, it's an attacker hoping you'll approve one just to make it stop.

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Phishing & Scams · July 2024

Chris' Scam List - The Investment Group Scams

Fake investment groups on WhatsApp and Telegram use manufactured social proof to make a scam look like a genuine community success story.

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Company News · July 2024

goDeep Stories: The Hero's Journey - story based training

goDeep Stories is built on the same narrative structure behind some of the most memorable storytelling ever made, for a reason.

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AI & Deepfakes · June 2024

Chris' Scam List - The Deep Fake Scam

Deepfake CEO and CFO impersonation scams exploit authority bias: the instinct to comply quickly when a senior voice asks urgently.

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Phishing & Scams · June 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Conveyancing Fraud Story

Buying a home is one of the biggest financial milestones in your life.

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Phishing & Scams · June 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Holiday Refund Scam Story

🏖The Holidays are coming 😀 Just one note of warning… 🙄 Chris and his 😡 Angry boss are back! 🏖 Chris' boss goes on holiday and when he's disappointed that it...

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Phishing & Scams · May 2024

Chris' Scam List: The WhatsApp Scam Story

The WhatsApp Scam Story - Chris' boss tells him how his WhatsApp got hacked by a scammer, but is Chris still going to have to pay for the Gift Cards?...

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Phishing & Scams · May 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Job Offer Scam Story

Have you been approached by a headhunter with an amazing job opportunity? Chris doesn't get on with his boss, so when he's approached by a headhunter for...

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Threat Intelligence · May 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Zero-Click Exploit Scam Story

🧨 Zero-click exploits don’t need your password. They don’t need your fingerprint. They don’t even need you to click.

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Phishing & Scams · April 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Gift Card Scam

Gift Card Scams: Chris is caught napping when he gets a message from his boss' hacked WhatsApp account telling him to buy gift cards for the staff. Is his...

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Phishing & Scams · April 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Bank Transfer Scam

🏦 Bank transfer scams are on the rise, and it’s not just businesses being targeted.

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Phishing & Scams · March 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Out-of-Office Phish Story

Why Chris’s Holiday Auto-Reply Triggered a Security Scare

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Phishing & Scams · March 2024

Chris' Scam List: The Impatient Boss Phish Scam

Chris Clicked the Link. Then Everything Went Sideways.

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Company News · February 2024

Release of goDeep Stories

We are excited to announce the release of goDeep Stories, our next generation Cyber Security Awareness Training Platform. We are delighted to partner with...

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