How are you preparing for the World Cup of cybersecurity?

Cyber Awareness Month is the biggest moment of the year for security awareness teams.

But no team wins the championship by reading the playbook.

They win because they practiced before the pressure hit. They trained the fundamentals. They got feedback from coaches. They learned from mistakes. They competed together. They built the muscle memory to make the right play when the game was on the line.

Cybersecurity works the same way.

Join David Badanes, Human Risk Advisor at Hoxhunt, for a practical Cyber Awareness Month webinar on how to prepare your people for the moments that matter: real phishing emails, fake calendar invites, smishing attacks, deepfakes, and urgent requests that arrive when employees are busy, distracted, or under pressure.

This session will help security awareness leaders turn October from a one-month campaign into a training ground for year-round behavior change.

Why attend?

Most employees can pass annual security training.

But passing a quiz is not the same as being ready when a real attack arrives.

In this webinar, David will explain why cyber awareness should be treated less like a compliance event and more like athletic development: repetition, adaptive difficulty, timely feedback, coaching, teamwork, and friendly competition.

Because your employees will all face their version of the free throw line: that pressure moment when something feels urgent, confusing, or just a little off.

The question is whether they have practiced enough to pause, verify, report, and make the right play.

As David puts it:

“Nobody wins the World Cup on talent alone. It’s the reps in the background that nobody sees.”

What you’ll learn

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

• Turn Cyber Awareness Month into a kickoff for year-round security behavior change
• Use sports and training principles to make cybersecurity more engaging
• Build cyber muscle memory through repetition, feedback, and realistic practice
• Help employees pause, verify, and report when real attacks arrive
• Train people on the threats they are actually seeing, from calendar invite attacks to World Cup-themed phishing
• Use gamification, leaderboards, and friendly competition to motivate participation
• Move beyond completion rates and click rates toward meaningful behavior metrics
• Prepare your people before attackers choose the moment of the game

From awareness to game-day readiness

Cyber Awareness Month should not be the only time people practice cybersecurity.

It should be the moment your program rallies the team.

Attackers do not wait for October. They choose the timing, the channel, and the emotional hook. They strike when people are tired, busy, rushed, or distracted.

That is why awareness alone is not enough.

Your people need realistic reps against realistic threats. They need to see attacks in different formats, at different difficulty levels, across different channels. They need feedback that helps them improve, not reports that arrive long after the play is over.

This webinar will show how to use October to build the habits that last after the final whistle.

Cyber Awareness Month Toolkit

This webinar also introduces Hoxhunt’s Cyber Awareness Month Toolkit, available August 17.

This year’s theme is:

Cybersecurity is a Team Sport

The toolkit includes ready-to-use campaign materials, weekly messages, posters, videos, stickers, and training ideas to help your organization build a stronger cyber team throughout October.

Use it to bring the sports theme to life, rally your employees, and make Cyber Awareness Month feel less like mandatory training and more like a team challenge everyone can join.

Sign up now to be notified when the toolkit is available.