Psybersafe receives business innovation support from LEP

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Peter Davison

Psybersafe, the Abingdon-based provider of innovative online cyber security training, has been awarded a significant grant through the Oxford Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) Business Innovation Support for Business scheme.

The new grant will allow Psybersafe to upgrade the dashboard to deliver behavioural insights as learners progress and so that clients can see their workforce are improving and are up to date with the latest training modules.

Psybersafe, currently trains around 20,000 learners and has clients across the UK and Europe. The training is based on a unique approach to cyber security training that is rooted in influencing long-term behaviour change.

Welcoming the cash injection, founder Mark Brown said: “We have spent a great deal of time developing fun, interactive and engaging online training episodes that encourage people to change their cyber behaviours.

"We now need to upgrade our dashboard, so that clients can monitor training progress, access real-time reporting and measure effectiveness. This grant from OxLEP is good news for us and will help to speed up development and let us share this innovative feature with our clients as quickly as possible.

“Cyber security is something that all organisations worry about. A data breach, hack or security issue affects business financially and reputationally.

"Most security issues happen because of bad cyber habits and reports suggest that around 90% of successful cyber attacks are caused by human error. Psybersafe aims to tackle this problem by encouraging behaviour change in users, allowing them to remain safe online.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.