Cybersecurity
Ongoing training and phishing simulations that turn staff into a control.
Our security awareness training gives every employee ongoing, short lessons and realistic phishing simulations, so people learn to spot social engineering before it costs you. It is built for healthcare practices, defense contractors, financial firms, and law firms whose regulators and insurers expect documented workforce training. The outcome is staff who pause before they click, and records that show training actually happened, not a one-time slideshow nobody remembers.
Training works when it is ongoing, relevant, and measured.
Short, recurring lessons on phishing, passwords, safe handling of sensitive data, and reporting suspicious activity, for everyone from front desk to leadership.
Realistic simulated phishing emails show who would have clicked, so follow-up training goes where it is needed most.
Content that reflects the rules your organization works under, such as HIPAA, CMMC, and the FTC Safeguards Rule.
Completion and simulation results are tracked, so you can show auditors and insurers that training is happening and improving.
Workforce training appears in each of the frameworks our clients work under.
The Security Rule requires a security awareness and training program for all workforce members, including management.
Covered financial institutions must provide security awareness training updated to reflect the risks identified in their risk assessment.
Users must be made aware of security risks, and staff must be trained for their security-related duties.
Training is built for regulated organizations where one wrong click can become a reportable event.
This published case study includes firm-wide security training as one of the controls a carrier required.
Primary sources for the training requirements mentioned on this page.
Your organization remains responsible for its own compliance program. We help you implement and document the technical and administrative work that program depends on. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a certification.
About the author
Ken Satkunam, CISM
President & Founder, NorthStar Technology Group
Ken has spent over 25 years in IT leadership, serving in roles from technical support to CIO for organizations as large as 23,000 employees. He founded NorthStar Technology Group in 2000 to help regulated organizations build secure, compliant, and operationally resilient technology environments. Ken holds the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) credential from ISACA and is the co-author of the Amazon best-seller "Cyber Attack Prevention." He has been quoted in industry publications including eWeek and DM News, and NorthStar has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list in both 2024 and 2025.
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