Do you offer employee cyber awareness training for Indian companies?
Key takeaways
- Awareness training and phishing simulation typically cost Rs 25,000 to Rs 60,000 per campaign excluding 18% GST for a mid-sized Indian company.
- Training content is built around current Indian lures, including business email compromise, fake payment approvals and the Statement of Account.zip attachment.
- Phishing simulation works only if the results are non-punitive and used to target training, because a punitive programme drives click rates down by driving clicks to zero.
- 57% of Indian security providers struggle to hire AI-security specialists and 73% of organisations cannot fill roles, so training is often the highest-return control available.
- A trained human layer is part of the evidence trail for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, since security awareness is a named control in both.
As of 24 October 2026: the service descriptions, prices and turnaround figures on this page are current.
What should employee training cover in India in 2026?
Six modules, chosen because they match how Indian losses actually happen. Business email compromise, where a compromised or impersonated mailbox asks a colleague to approve a genuine-looking payment, which remains one of the most expensive fraud routes for Indian firms. Payment approval fraud, and the rule that a voice or video instruction is never sufficient authorisation for a transfer, given the rise of AI-cloned executives. Pairing-code and remote-access lures, including the WhatsApp GhostPairing technique CERT-In rates as High severity. Attachment and link hygiene, aimed at the Statement of Account.zip and RBI.zip malware campaigns. Strong authentication and passphrases, including the fact that a two-step PIN beats SMS. And the handling of customer, patient and employee personal data under the DPDP Act, which matters more each month as Rule 7 obligations approach in May 2027.
Is phishing simulation actually worth running?
Yes, provided the results are used to target training rather than to punish people, and provided the metric is the click rate rather than a pass or fail. A punitive programme produces a low click rate for the wrong reason: staff learn that clicking costs them a conversation with their manager, so they stop reporting, and the organisation loses its early warning system. Run it as an announced, bounded simulation, score the results by department, then re-train the groups that scored poorly. A useful benchmark is that a well-run programme moves click rates from double digits to low single digits over three cycles, and that a click followed by a report is a better outcome than a click followed by silence.
How much does cyber awareness training cost for an Indian company?
A typical campaign runs Rs 25,000 to Rs 60,000 excluding 18% GST and covers a live session for staff, a phishing simulation with a scored report, a short refresher cycle, and management reporting. A one-off awareness session for 30 to 50 people sits at the lower end, around Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000. A full programme with quarterly simulations, role-based modules for finance and HR staff, and an executive briefing runs at the upper end. The rate underneath is roughly Rs 12,000 to Rs 30,000 per day of delivery, consistent with the rest of our work, and engagements are quoted as a fixed price rather than per attendee.
How do we make the training stick?
Three design choices do most of the work. Anchor the training in scenarios from the participant's own working day, so a finance approver practises on a payment request rather than on a generic password reset. Make it specific to current Indian campaigns, naming the actual lures in circulation, because a lesson about a real Statement of Account.zip message is retained and a lesson about phishing in the abstract is not. And measure it, because a programme with no simulation and no scorecard will be forgotten within a quarter, whereas one with a click rate and a re-training cycle stays in the calendar. It also helps to have an incident reporting route that is not embarrassing, since the person who clicks is the one who saves you.
| Programme | Indicative cost (ex-GST) | Audience | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awareness session, one-off | Rs 15,000 - 40,000 | All staff | 3-4 hours |
| Awareness session plus phishing simulation | Rs 25,000 - 60,000 | All staff | 1 day plus 2 weeks |
| Quarterly simulation programme | Rs 1,20,000 - 3,00,000 a year | All staff, four cycles | Ongoing |
| Role-based finance and HR module | Rs 20,000 - 50,000 | Finance, HR, admin | Half day |
| Executive briefing on AI fraud | Rs 30,000 - 60,000 | Leadership team | 2 hours |
| Tabletop incident exercise | Rs 40,000 - 90,000 | Cross-functional team | Half day |
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