Darnley's Cyber Café
Darnley's Cyber Café
Darnley's Cyber Café
The Training Trap: Why Cyber Awareness Isn't Making You Safer
12 minutes Posted May 6, 2026 at 8:00 am.
Introduction Open
The Illusion of Awareness
The Research Problem & Real-World Consequences
What Actually Works
Ending Sign Off
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Your organization spent money on cybersecurity training. Someone still clicked the link. In this episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, we break down why most security awareness programs fail to change behaviour, and why the gap between knowing about a threat and actually being ready for it is exactly where attackers operate. Drawing on research from ETH Zurich, real-world breach data, and the 2025 Marks & Spencer cyberattack, this episode unpacks the compliance checkbox model, the ...