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Security Awareness Training Built for Your Industry

Generic compliance videos do not survive contact with a real workforce. Pick the industry that matches your team. Get the threat patterns, exercises, and compliance mappings that actually apply.

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For Healthcare

Healthcare

HIPAA-aligned interactive training for hospitals, clinics, and PHI-handling workforces. Covers phishing, ransomware, BEC, and breach response.

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For Financial Services

Financial Services

Audit-ready interactive training for banks, credit unions, broker-dealers, and fintechs. Covers BEC, wire fraud, deepfake CEO calls, and 23 NYCRR 500 evidence.

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For Government

Government & Public Sector

CMMC, FedRAMP, and NIST 800-171 aligned training for federal, state, local, and contractor workforces. Covers nation-state phishing, ransomware, and CUI handling.

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For Manufacturing

Manufacturing

OT-aware interactive training for plants, suppliers, and defense contractors. Covers ransomware, BEC, vendor impersonation, USB drops, and CMMC evidence.

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For Retail

Retail & E-commerce

PCI DSS v4.0-aligned interactive training for store staff, e-commerce engineers, and customer-service teams. Covers BEC, e-skimming, gift-card fraud, and OAuth abuse.

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For Education

Education

FERPA-aligned interactive training for K-12 districts, universities, and ed-tech teams. Covers ransomware, BEC, smishing, phishing, and student-data handling.

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For Legal

Legal Services

ABA-aligned interactive training for law firms, in-house legal, and paralegal teams. Covers BEC wire fraud, trust-account redirection, phishing, and client-confidentiality scenarios.

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For SaaS & Tech

SaaS & Technology

SOC 2 and ISO 27001-aligned interactive training for SaaS, AI product teams, and cloud engineering. Covers production credential phishing, OAuth abuse, prompt injection, and AI coding assistant data leakage.

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For MSPs

Managed Service Providers

CIS Controls and CMMC-aligned interactive training for MSPs and their client workforces. Covers RMM credential phishing, ransomware blast radius, vendor-impersonation vishing, and tech-support scams.

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For Non-Profits

Non-Profit

Donor-trust-aware interactive training for non-profits, NGOs, and charitable foundations. Covers donor-fund BEC, gift-card scams, ransomware on small NGOs, and phishing for donor-database credentials.

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What Is Industry-Specific Security Awareness Training?

Industry-specific security awareness training is a workforce education program that aligns scenario practice, exercise selection, and audit reporting with the threat patterns and regulations that apply to a specific vertical. Healthcare workforces face HIPAA, vendor impersonation, and ransomware on hospital networks. Financial services face GLBA, PCI DSS, and BEC fraud. Manufacturing faces OT remote-access risk and supply-chain compromise.

Effective programs do three things: they map exercises to the controls auditors actually review, they prioritize threats statistically most likely to land on the workforce, and they produce evidence packages aligned with the audit framework. Generic compliance videos technically check the training box but rarely change behavior because the scenarios feel disconnected from the day-to-day work.

RansomLeak publishes the same 100+ exercise catalogue across all 10 supported industries. The differences sit in the assignment template, the compliance mapping, and the recommended exercise sequence. Each industry page below lists the threat patterns, regulatory frameworks, and featured exercises that apply, with audit-ready SCORM exports for any LMS.

How we built the industry programs

Each industry page draws on three inputs: the public threat record (HHS HC3, FBI IC3, CISA, sector ISACs), the regulatory and audit framework (HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, NIS2), and the buyer interviews behind every RansomLeak deployment in that vertical. The result is a recommended exercise sequence that maps to controls auditors actually inspect, not a generic compliance video repackaged for a new logo.

Threat patterns rotate fast. Healthcare ransomware moved from opportunistic to vendor-impersonation through 2023 and 2024. Financial services BEC shifted from CEO fraud to payroll diversion as DMARC adoption climbed. Manufacturing intrusions now arrive through unmonitored OT remote-access portals as often as through phishing. The featured exercises on each industry page are reordered when the dominant pattern shifts so new hires drill the threats their workforce will actually encounter, not the playbook from two years ago.

Compliance mapping is the second axis. Each industry page lists the regulations that drive the buying decision and the specific control IDs each exercise satisfies. Healthcare maps to 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(5) Security Awareness and Training. Financial services maps to GLBA Safeguards Rule, 23 NYCRR Part 500, and PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 12.6. Manufacturing maps to NIST 800-171 3.2 and CMMC Level 2 AT.L2-3.2.1. Auditors get the evidence; security leaders get behavior change.

Frequently Asked Questions

What buyers ask before picking an industry program.

Why does industry-specific security awareness training matter?

Generic compliance videos rarely change behavior because the threats and workflows differ by industry. A nurse facing a vendor-impersonation phishing email needs different scenario practice than an SDR opening unknown PDFs or a manufacturing engineer being targeted via OT remote-access portals. Industry-tailored training maps the threat patterns and compliance frameworks that actually apply to the workforce.

Can the catalogue be assigned by industry?

Yes. The 100+ exercise catalogue is the same across industries, but the assignment templates, completion reports, and exercise selection are tailored. Healthcare assignments foreground HIPAA scenarios; financial services assignments foreground GLBA, PCI DSS, and BEC; manufacturing assignments foreground OT and supply-chain risk.

How does compliance mapping work?

Each industry page lists the regulations, frameworks, and audit standards that drive most buying decisions for that vertical. The platform then maps each exercise to specific control IDs (HIPAA § 164.308, NIST 800-171 3.2, ISO 27001 A.7.2.2, etc.) so you can produce audit-ready evidence packages.

Do you have content in regulated languages?

The English catalogue is comprehensive across the 100+ exercises. Ukrainian translations are available for the home, catalogue, and most blog content. Additional locales are scoped per-engagement; reach out to discuss.

How are these pages different from the Catalogue?

The catalogue lists every exercise we publish, organized by topic (Security Awareness, Privacy & Compliance, AI Security, Real-World Incidents). The industry pages curate the right subset for the workforce you actually have, with the threat patterns and audit frameworks that apply to that vertical.

Not Sure Which Program Fits?

Book a 30-minute walkthrough. Bring your audit framework and LMS. We will map the right exercises to your workforce.