SIRI Academy
SIRI Academy — training built to close a skills gap, not check a compliance box.
4.8 million cybersecurity roles sit unfilled globally, and most organisations still run generic, once-a-year awareness training that satisfies an audit without changing behaviour. SIRI Academy trains security teams, developers and leadership on practical skills drawn from SIRI's own current testing and response work.
4.8MCybersecurity roles unfilled globally
62%Of breaches involve the human element — training's actual target
CurrentCurriculum drawn from SIRI's own live testing & response work
Why generic awareness training keeps failing to change outcomes
Live tracking · scroll to see what's actually driving the need for practical training
Global shortage
4.8M
4.8 million cybersecurity roles are unfilled globally — a gap organisations increasingly have to close by upskilling existing staff, not just hiring.
The actual target
62%
62% of breaches involve the human element — phishing, credential theft, social engineering or error — making practical, behaviour-changing training a direct security control, not a soft compliance item.
Compliance vs. capability
CHECKBOX TRAINING
Generic, once-a-year awareness modules are increasingly recognised as satisfying an audit requirement without measurably changing behaviour or skill.
Fast-moving skill needs
AI & AGENTIC
AI and agentic security skills are in particularly short supply — only 12% of organisations shipping AI in production have staff with formal AI security testing skills.
Shift toward practical
SKILLS-BASED
Hands-on, scenario-based training — built from real current attack techniques rather than generic slide decks — is becoming the standard organisations actually invest in.
A completed training module and a changed behaviour are not the same thing
62% of breaches involve the human element — the same gap most security training fails to close.
Most organisations already run some form of security-awareness training, typically annual, generic and built to satisfy a compliance requirement. It rarely reflects current attack techniques, and it rarely measurably changes what people actually do when a real phishing email or social-engineering attempt arrives. SIRI Academy is built the other way — practical, scenario-based training drawn from SIRI's own current testing and incident-response work.
The skills gap compounds the problem: 4.8 million cybersecurity roles sit unfilled globally, meaning most organisations can't simply hire their way out of a capability shortfall — existing staff, including developers and leadership, increasingly need to be upskilled directly. This is particularly acute in fast-moving areas like AI and agentic security, where formal training and established curricula are still catching up to how quickly the technology itself is being deployed.
62% of breaches involve the human element
The same gap most generic, compliance-driven security-awareness training fails to close — practical, current, scenario-based training targets this directly. (2026 breach-attribution benchmarks.)
SIRI Academy's curriculum is drawn directly from SIRI's own live work — the phishing techniques SIRI Attack actually uses in social-engineering testing, the AI attack techniques SIRI AI Security tests against, the incident patterns SIRI Response has actually handled — so training reflects current reality, not a generic template.
What organisations get wrong
Four assumptions that keep training a checkbox instead of a control
Most training gaps aren't about lack of effort — they're about what the training was actually built to achieve.
01 — COMPLETION VS. CAPABILITY
“Everyone completed the training module”
Module completion measures attendance, not capability — it says nothing about whether behaviour actually changed when a real phishing attempt arrived.
02 — GENERIC CONTENT
“Our training covers the basics”
Generic content built once and reused for years doesn't reflect current attack techniques, particularly in fast-moving areas like AI-enabled social engineering and deepfake impersonation.
03 — AUDIENCE
“Security training is for the security team”
62% of breaches involve the human element across the whole organisation — developers, leadership and general staff all need training scoped to their actual role and risk.
04 — HIRING AS THE ONLY LEVER
“We'll hire our way out of the skills gap”
With 4.8 million roles unfilled globally, hiring alone can't close every capability gap — upskilling existing staff is a necessary complement, not an alternative.
What SIRI Academy covers
Practical training, drawn from SIRI's own current work
Scoped to security teams, developers and leadership, not a single generic audience.
SECURITY TEAM TRAINING
Offensive & Defensive Skills Training
Hands-on training in offensive and defensive techniques for security teams.
- Practical, scenario-based labs
- Current attack-technique coverage
- Drawn from SIRI Attack's live methodology
AI SECURITY TRAINING
AI & Agentic Security Training
Training on AI and agentic security techniques, where formal skills are in particularly short supply.
- Prompt-injection & jailbreak techniques
- Agentic security fundamentals
- OWASP LLM Top 10 & NIST AI RMF
DEVELOPER TRAINING
Secure Development Training
Practical secure-coding and application-security training for engineering teams.
- Secure-coding practices
- OWASP Top 10 for developers
- Dependency & supply-chain hygiene
AWARENESS TRAINING
Practical Awareness & Social Engineering
Scenario-based training on phishing, social engineering and deepfake impersonation, not generic slides.
- Realistic phishing simulation
- Social-engineering scenario training
- Deepfake & impersonation awareness
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Board & Leadership Cyber-Risk Training
Cyber-risk training for boards and leadership, focused on governance and decision-making.
- Board-level cyber-risk literacy
- Incident decision-making training
- Governance & oversight training
TABLETOP EXERCISES
Incident Simulation & Tabletop Training
Realistic incident-response tabletop exercises that test decision-making under pressure.
- Ransomware tabletop scenarios
- Cross-functional response training
- Post-exercise gap identification
Evidence, not guesswork
No training programme vs. generic annual awareness training vs. SIRI Academy — what actually differs
Completing a module and building a skill are different outcomes.
| Approach | No dedicated training programme | Generic annual awareness training | SIRI Academy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content reflects current attack techniques | N/A | Rare — static, reused content | Drawn from SIRI's live work |
| Scoped by audience (security, dev, leadership) | No | One-size-fits-all | Role-specific tracks |
| AI & agentic security coverage | No | Rare | Included |
| Hands-on, scenario-based format | No | Rare — mostly slides/video | Standard |
| Measures capability, not just completion | No | Completion tracking only | Skills-based assessment |
Sources: (ISC)² / ISC2-style global cybersecurity workforce gap research; 2026 breach-attribution benchmarks. Summarised for comparison.
Numbers every board should know
What's actually driving the need for practical training
4.8M
Unfilled roles globally
The scale of the cybersecurity skills gap organisations are training around.
62%
Breaches involve people
The human element remains one of the most common breach factors.
12%
Have formal AI testing skills
Of organisations shipping AI in production — a specific, growing skills gap.
Role-specific
Not one-size-fits-all
Security team, developer, leadership and awareness tracks, scoped separately.
Compliance alignment
Standards & frameworks we align to
Our methodology is built around publicly recognised frameworks — not a proprietary checklist. Where a specific certification or attestation is completed and verified, it will be named here explicitly.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
SOC 2 (AICPA TSC)
NIST CSF 2.0
MITRE ATT&CK
OWASP Top 10
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
NIST AI RMF
ISO/IEC 42001
ISO 22301
CERT-In Directions 2022
Framework references reflect publicly available versions as of publication and describe the standards our methodology is aligned to; they are not a claim of certification, attestation, or audit completion unless stated explicitly elsewhere on this site.
Why SIRI Academy specifically
Training drawn from what SIRI is actually doing right now
Content built from live, current work stays relevant in a way a static curriculum can't.
01
Drawn from live work
Curriculum reflects the techniques SIRI Attack, SIRI AI Security and SIRI Response are actually using and seeing right now, not a static template.
02
Role-specific tracks
Security teams, developers, leadership and general staff each get training scoped to their actual risk and responsibilities.
03
AI & agentic coverage
Training addresses the specific skills gap in AI and agentic security, where formal curricula are still catching up to deployment.
04
Measures capability
Assessment is built around demonstrated skill, not just module-completion tracking.
Who SIRI Academy is built for
Teams SIRI Academy's training is built for
Security teams building offensive & defensive skills
Engineering & developer teams
Boards & leadership
Technology & SaaS companies
Organisations closing an internal skills gap
AI Companies
How training is built
From current work to a delivered training track
01
Scope the Audience
Identifying which team and skill gap the training needs to address.
Week 102
Build from Current Work
Curriculum drawn from SIRI's live testing and response methodology.
Weeks 2–303
Deliver
Hands-on, scenario-based training delivery.
Scheduled04
Assess & Refresh
Capability assessment, with content refreshed as techniques evolve.
OngoingFrequently asked
SIRI Academy, answered directly
Is this compliance-checkbox training, or something more substantial?
It's built to be substantially different — hands-on and scenario-based, drawn from SIRI's own current testing and response work, rather than generic slides built to satisfy an audit requirement.
Who is SIRI Academy training actually for?
Security teams, developers, leadership and general staff each have separate, role-specific tracks, since the human-element risk each group represents is different.
Can this help close a skills gap on our security team, not just general awareness?
Yes — offensive and defensive skills training, and AI/agentic security training specifically, are built for security-team members looking to build practical, hands-on capability.
Do you offer board or leadership-level training?
Yes — cyber-risk literacy and incident decision-making training scoped for board and leadership audiences is part of the curriculum.
How current is the training content?
Curriculum is drawn directly from SIRI's live, current work — the techniques SIRI Attack tests, the incidents SIRI Response handles — and refreshed as attack techniques evolve, rather than built once and reused indefinitely.
Build the skills your hiring pipeline can't fill fast enough
Train your team on what's actually current.
Start with a specific team's skills gap, or scope a broader organisation-wide training programme.
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