Cyber Security Consulting
Cyber Threat Awareness Training for Businesses and Organisations
WHO DARES GROUP: CYBER CONSULTING FOR BUSINESSES AND ORGANISATIONS
Who Dares Group is a cyber consulting firm founded by UK Special Forces veterans. We provide operationally-informed cyber security consulting to organisations across the UK that need to understand, manage and respond to cyber threats with confidence. Drawing on a global network of leading cybersecurity professionals and technical partners, every engagement is shaped around the specific risks your organisation faces — never a generic, off-the-shelf package.
Our work centres on the threats that actually breach organisations: phishing, ransomware, business email compromise, insider threats and denial-of-service attacks. We translate real-world threat understanding into practical cyber threat awareness training and cyber risk advisory that your people can act on. For organisations that also operate in high-risk physical environments, our hostile environment awareness training addresses the wider risk picture alongside our cyber consulting services.
We work closely with leadership teams and key personnel to build awareness around real risks including malware, ransomware, phishing, insider threats, denial-of-service attacks, while tailoring every engagement to the specific structure, access levels, and vulnerabilities of the organisation. Our approach is practical, direct, and shaped by operational experience. If your organisation also operates in high-risk physical environments, our hostile environment awareness training addresses the full risk picture alongside our cyber consulting work.
Structured Support, Delivered with Precision
Executive Cyber Threat Awareness
Focused executive cyber security awareness training for senior leaders, covering phishing, social engineering and targeted attacks. The emphasis is on decision-making under pressure, privileged-access vulnerabilities and the consequences of a lapse at the top of an organisation.
Incident Readiness & Response Planning
Practical guidance on how to recognise, escalate and respond to cyber incidents including scenario planning, containment strategies, communication protocols, minimising disruption during a live incident, and structured post-incident recovery.
Organisational Cyber Risk Workshops
Interactive workshops that frame cyber threats in the context of day-to-day operations, covering insider risks, digital hygiene, threat detection and how routine operational decisions can quietly expose the organisation to unnecessary risk.
Staff Training and Drills:
Hands-on staff cyber security training that equips people at every level with the skills and confidence to identify threats and respond effectively, through situational awareness, threat identification and coordinated response exercises.
Behavioural Threat Awareness
Social engineering awareness training focused on how attackers exploit human behaviour to breach systems covering manipulation tactics, common social engineering methods, and how individual awareness strengthens wider organisational resilience.
Cyber Threat Strategy & Advisory
High-level support to help organisations build long-term cyber resilience strategies. Includes one-to-one advisory, policy input, strategic reviews, and integration of cyber awareness into leadership-level planning and governance. This service works alongside our Martyn's Law consultancy for organisations with venue or event security obligations.
Cyber Threat Consultancy: Our Process
Discovery & Scoping
Every engagement begins with a consultation to understand your organisational structure, sector, operating environment, and specific concerns. This includes identifying key personnel, assessing access levels, reviewing past incidents where relevant, and defining clear objectives. The goal is to map where your organisation is most exposed, technically, behaviourally, and strategically.
Threat Surface & Risk Review
A comprehensive internal risk review carried out by our specialists to evaluate your current security posture. This includes a threat mapping exercise to identify likely vectors of attack including phishing, ransomware, business email compromise, and insider threats, as well as behavioural vulnerabilities across teams and gaps in incident readiness or leadership awareness.
Strategy & Package Design
Once the review is concluded, and the findings are shared with the client, a tailored support plan is developed by one of our senior cybersecurity specialists based on the client's specific risk profile, organisational structure, and operational demands. This may include a mix of workshops and seminars, leadership briefings, technical testing, response planning, and so on.
Delivery of Services
Who Dares Group delivers the agreed services, typically through a combination of in-person or virtual leadership sessions, team workshops and scenario-based training, strategic consultations and board-level briefings, and penetration testing and/or vulnerability assessments All content is tailored, direct, and informed by real-world experience, avoiding generic templates or off-the-shelf solutions.
Actionable Recommendations
Following delivery, clients receive concise and structured guidance on where and how to improve their security posture, focusing on both quick wins and longer-term improvements across behaviours, policies, and response capabilities. This includes practical steps for mitigation and guidance on where to focus effort moving forward. All recommendations are clear, practical, and executable.
Ongoing Support
Our cyber consulting does not end at delivery. We provide ongoing support for clients who want to maintain momentum, including periodic reviews, targeted follow-up sessions, retesting, and support in adapting to evolving threats or internal changes such as team restructuring and system upgrades. The focus is on keeping defences sharp as the threat landscape changes.
Key Cybersecurity Threat Categories
Phishing Attacks
The most widespread cyber threat facing UK businesses, using fake emails, messages or websites to trick people into revealing credentials or financial details. We train teams to identify, resist and respond to these manipulation-based threats.
Ransomware
Malicious software that encrypts your data and demands payment to restore access, often with the threat of a data leak. We focus on early detection, structured response and minimising operational and reputational impact.
Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Also known as CEO fraud attackers impersonate executives or trusted suppliers to authorise payments or extract data. We cover business email compromise prevention through staff training, internal verification and stronger communication protocols.
Insider Threats
Risks from within, whether malicious or accidental, including disgruntled employees, careless staff and contractors with excessive access. We build awareness of behavioural red flags, access misuse and internal vulnerabilities.
DoS and DDoS Attacks
Denial-of-service attacks flood systems with traffic to cause disruption or mask a secondary attack. As an advisory partner rather than a technical mitigation provider, we focus on decision-making, operational readiness and minimising disruption.
Supply Chain Attacks
Attackers target third-party suppliers to reach their clients’ systems. We help leadership understand indirect access risk, support supplier risk assessments and improve oversight and trust boundaries.
Credential Theft and Account Compromise
Stolen logins let attackers move laterally and escalate access. We help identify high-risk behaviours such as poor password hygiene and credential reuse, and advise on stronger verification.
Software Vulnerabilities and Poor Patch Management
Unpatched systems create avoidable entry points. We help organisations understand where patch-management gaps exist and build governance that keeps systems protected over time.
Why Choose Who Dares Group?
What sets Who Dares Group apart is a combination traditional consultancies cannot replicate: operational experience from some of the world’s most high-risk environments, paired with access to a global network of elite cybersecurity professionals. Our methodology is built on real-world threat understanding, not theoretical frameworks. The same instructors behind our hostile environment awareness training and team development programmes bring that pressure-tested judgement to every cyber engagement.
What Makes Us Different?
Special Forces Foundations
Founded by UK Special Forces veterans with direct operational experience in high-risk environments. Understanding how adversaries think and operate informs everything we do.
Leadership Focus
We specialise in working with C-suite and senior management the individuals with the highest system access and greatest exposure to targeted attacks such as CEO fraud and spear phishing.
Human-Centred Approach
We focus on the human factors behind most breaches: phishing susceptibility, social engineering, insider threats and decision-making under pressure. Technology alone does not stop these threats behaviour change does.
Trusted Global Network
Backed by a network of world-class cybersecurity professionals and partners for technical testing and validation.
Tailored Delivery
No off-the-shelf content. Every session is built around your organisation’s structure, risks and industry.
Clear Communication
Straightforward delivery with no jargon just clear, relevant and practical advice your people can act on.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
Cyber consulting is a professional service that helps organisations identify, understand, and reduce the risks associated with cyber threats. It goes beyond installing software or firewalls. Effective cyber consulting involves building a structured, strategic approach to security that accounts for your people, your processes, and your specific threat exposure.
A cyber consultant will typically support incident response planning, help build a security-focused culture across the organisation, and ensure that leadership understands its role in protecting the business. This ranges from risk assessments and staff training through to strategic advisory and governance. It is particularly valuable for organisations without a dedicated internal security team, and for those who need experienced outside expertise to stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape.
Cyber threat awareness involves educating individuals and teams about the nature of cyber threats, how attacks are carried out, and what behaviours reduce risk. It covers common attack methods such as phishing, social engineering, ransomware, and business email compromise, as well as the human factors that make organisations vulnerable. Effective awareness goes beyond a one-off session. It builds lasting behavioural change that reduces the likelihood of a successful attack.
Leaders are among the most targeted individuals in any organisation. They hold the highest levels of system access, make high-value financial decisions, and are frequently impersonated in CEO fraud and spear phishing attacks. A breach at leadership level can have severe financial, legal, and reputational consequences. Our cyber consulting works specifically with C-suite and senior management to ensure those with the greatest exposure understand their risk and are equipped to manage it.
Our cyber consulting starts with a discovery and scoping session to understand your organisation’s structure, sector, key personnel, and specific vulnerabilities. From there we carry out a threat surface and risk review, develop a tailored engagement plan, deliver training and advisory sessions, and provide ongoing support to ensure the work has lasting impact. Every engagement is bespoke. We do not deliver generic training packages.
The most common cyber threats facing UK businesses include phishing and spear phishing, ransomware, business email compromise (CEO fraud), insider threats, credential theft, supply chain attacks, and denial-of-service attacks. Most successful breaches exploit human behaviour rather than technical vulnerabilities, which is why building awareness at every level of the organisation is a core part of effective cyber consulting.
Reducing human-related cyber risk requires a combination of structured awareness training, clear internal processes, and a culture where security is treated as everyone’s responsibility. This means training staff to recognise phishing and social engineering attempts, strengthening verification procedures for financial transactions, managing access levels carefully, and ensuring leadership sets the right tone from the top. Our cyber consulting addresses all of these dimensions.
IT support focuses on maintaining and troubleshooting the technical infrastructure of an organisation, keeping systems running, managing software, and resolving day-to-day issues. Cyber consulting is focused on risk, behaviour, and strategy. It identifies how your organisation could be compromised, builds awareness among the people most likely to be targeted, and develops the governance and response capability needed to manage a threat when it materialises. The two are complementary but address fundamentally different problems.
Yes. Small businesses are frequently targeted precisely because attackers expect weaker defences. A phishing attack or ransomware incident can have a disproportionate impact on a smaller organisation that lacks the resources to absorb significant disruption. Our cyber consulting is scalable and can be tailored to the size, structure, and budget of your organisation, whether you have a team of ten or a workforce of several hundred.
Penetration testing involves simulating a cyber attack on your systems, networks, or applications to identify vulnerabilities before a real attacker does. It is typically carried out by specialist technical partners and is most valuable after your organisation has built a baseline level of security awareness and governance. Our cyber consulting can help you understand when penetration testing is appropriate, what to look for in a provider, and how to act on the findings.
Social engineering is the use of psychological manipulation to trick people into revealing sensitive information or taking actions that compromise security. It includes phishing emails, pretexting (inventing a false scenario to gain trust), baiting, and impersonation. Social engineering is the most common method used in successful cyber attacks because it targets human behaviour rather than technical systems. Our cyber consulting specifically addresses how to recognise and resist these tactics at every level of the organisation.
Our work with organisations extends across physical security, leadership resilience, and operational preparedness. Alongside our cyber consulting services, we deliver hostile environment awareness training for teams operating in high-risk locations, Martyn’s Law consultancy for organisations with venue or event security obligations, and team development programmes that build leadership and resilience under pressure. Speak to us about how these services can work together for your organisation.
Behaviour is the single biggest factor in most successful cyber attacks. Technical defences can be bypassed if someone clicks a phishing link, shares login credentials, or transfers funds based on a fraudulent request. Building individual and organisational awareness of how attackers exploit human behaviour, including under time pressure, authority, and urgency, is the foundation of effective cyber risk management. This is why our cyber consulting prioritises behavioural change alongside strategic and governance advice.
Keynote Speakers with Real-World Experience
We have access to an extensive network of high-calibre keynote speakers and subject matter experts, many of whom come from military, intelligence, and senior government backgrounds. These individuals bring frontline experience in high-pressure environments alongside deep technical understanding, making them particularly effective at communicating cyber risk to leadership audiences who need to understand it, not just hear about it.
To find out more, or to enquire about availability, contact us by calling 03300 438 007, emailing us, or filling in the form below. You can also find out more about our keynote talks service.
Why Invest in Cyber Threat Awareness Training?
Most cyber attacks succeed not because of technical failures but because of human ones. Phishing, ransomware, social engineering, and business email compromise all exploit the same vulnerability: people who are not prepared to recognise or respond to them. Investing in cyber consulting and awareness training equips your staff with the knowledge and confidence to spot threats early, respond appropriately, and avoid becoming the weak link an attacker is looking for.
Effective cyber consulting builds a stronger security culture across the organisation, supports compliance with regulatory requirements, reduces the impact of incidents when they occur, and helps avoid financial and reputational damage. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to strengthen defences precisely where attackers are most likely to strike.
6 Key Benefits of Cyber Threat Awareness Training:
Reduces Human Error:
Most cyber incidents start with a mistake—clicking a link, trusting a spoofed email, or mishandling data. Training helps staff recognise threats and make better decisions.
Strengthens Security Culture:
Awareness builds accountability and caution at every level of the organisation, making security part of day-to-day thinking rather than an afterthought left to the IT team.
Improves Incident Response:
When staff know what to do and who to inform, threats are escalated faster, containment begins sooner, and the overall damage to the organisation is significantly reduced.
Protects High-Risk Roles:
Leadership, finance, and operations teams are the most targeted individuals in any organisation. Focused training ensures those with elevated access and decision-making authority understand their specific exposure and how to protect themselves.
Supports Regulatory Compliance:
Many regulations require demonstrable staff training on data protection and cyber risk. Awareness programmes help meet those obligations.
Prevents Financial and Reputational Loss:
Avoiding just one successful cyber attack can save an organisation from major disruption, legal costs, and reputational damage.