Your security team is good. That is exactly why you have never seen your people tested.
A quiet year is not evidence of readiness. It is the absence of evidence. And the one behavioral signal you do have, the phishing tests your people keep failing, says training alone has not changed anything.
Readiness is not a completion certificate. It is trained behavior, tested response, and practiced leadership, measured every quarter. This program delivers all three, managed end to end by Direnzic.
Powered by NINJIO awareness training. Led by Direnzic crisis-readiness experts.
Your people finished the training. Is your organization ready for the incident?
Here is the paradox no training vendor will say out loud: when your security team does its job, threats rarely become incidents. So you accumulate years of quiet, and quiet feels like proof. It is not. It means the question that matters most has never been asked of your organization under real conditions.
Nothing has happened. So you know nothing.
Effective security prevents incidents, and prevented incidents produce no behavioral data. You have never observed your employees, your managers, or your executives under real attack conditions. Their behavior in that moment is untested, and untested is not the same as ready.
The evidence you do have points the wrong way.
Phishing test results are the one behavioral signal most organizations collect, and people keep failing them. Years of completed training, and the clicks continue. Information was delivered. Behavior did not change. That gap is the risk.
Training informed them. It did not change them.
Completion certificates measure attendance, not instinct. Knowing what a phishing email looks like and pausing before clicking one at 4:45 on a Friday are different capabilities. Only one of them protects your organization, and it is the one no completion report can show you.
AI is expanding your untested surface every day
Your people are eager to use AI, and eagerness without security instinct creates exposure no policy memo has tested. At the same time, attackers are using the same technology to defeat the instincts your old training built. The blind spot is not static. It is growing on both sides.
Shadow AI adoption
Employees adopt unapproved AI tools with enthusiasm and no security review, moving sensitive data outside your control without anyone deciding to accept that risk.
Sensitive data exposure
Client records, financials, and operational details pasted into AI tools that retain, train on, or leak what they are given. Untested behavior, repeated daily.
AI-generated phishing
The badly written scam your team was trained to spot no longer exists. AI writes flawless, personalized messages at scale.
Deepfake voice requests
Cloned voices of executives and vendors requesting urgent payments, credential resets, or confidential data by phone.
Fake executive instructions
Business email compromise that exploits authority, urgency, and your normal approval workflows, now more believable than ever.
Untested escalation
When an employee finally does report something, do managers know what happens next? In most organizations, that path has never been exercised either.
Stop waiting for a real incident to find out. Manufacture the evidence safely.
The Direnzic Cyber Behavior & Crisis Readiness Program™ is a 12-month managed engagement that creates the conditions of an incident, safely and repeatedly, so behavior becomes observable, measurable, and correctable. Recurring awareness training, phishing simulations, AI safety education, role-based readiness paths, facilitated tabletop exercises, after-action improvement planning, and executive crisis leadership support, all managed by Direnzic in one continuous rhythm. You stop assuming readiness and start measuring it, with quarterly evidence you can hand to your board, council, insurer, auditor, or regulator.
Learn. Prove. Lead.
Three layers of readiness. Most vendors stop at the first one. The second is where the blind spot closes.
Learn
Employees complete recurring cybersecurity and AI-risk awareness training, including Direnzic's AI Safety & Social Engineering Module and role-based readiness paths matched to the risks each role actually faces.
Prove
Behavior is tested, not assumed. Phishing simulations, social engineering drills, scenario rounds, and response checkpoints turn invisible behavior into visible data: recognition, reporting, and escalation, measured on your quarterly Scorecard. This is the layer that closes the evidence gap.
Lead
Managers and executives practice real decisions through facilitated tabletop exercises, decision injects, after-action improvement planning, and executive readiness reviews. Leadership readiness is built before it is needed.
Everything your readiness program needs, managed for you
- NINJIO awareness training seats with story-driven episodes on current threats
- Phishing simulations measuring click behavior, reporting behavior, and improvement
- AI Safety & Social Engineering Module created and led by Direnzic
- Role-based readiness paths for frontline, finance, operations, IT, managers, and executives
- Quarterly management reporting your leadership can actually act on
- Cyber Behavior & Crisis Readiness Scorecard as your quarterly operating dashboard
- Tabletop exercises with sector-matched scenario rounds and decision injects
- After-Action Improvement Plan with corrective action sprints, owners, and deadlines
- Executive crisis leadership options including leadership challenges and readiness reviews
- ACRA Executive Snapshot integration as your governance and maturity baseline
- Optional pathways into Comprehensive ACRA, ARG + CR, and the Cyber Crisis Leadership Program™
How NINJIO fits, and where Direnzic leads
This is a program architecture, not a product resale. Each partner does what it does best.
NINJIO powers the awareness layer
NINJIO provides the engine for recurring workforce education:
- Short, story-driven training episodes based on real incidents
- Phishing simulation platform and campaign delivery
- Completion and engagement tracking across your workforce
Direnzic leads the readiness layer
Direnzic designs and runs everything that turns training into readiness:
- Program design, launch, and 12-month management
- AI Safety & Social Engineering Module and role-based paths
- Tabletop exercises, scenario rounds, and decision injects
- Scorecard, quarterly reporting, and after-action improvement
- Executive crisis leadership and board or council briefings
See the training your team would actually get
Enter your details and we will email you one sample NINJIO training episode. If it is a fit, we will show you how monthly episodes and phishing simulations work for your organization.
AI Safety & Social Engineering Module
The widening gap you saw above is exactly why Direnzic built this module. Generic awareness content has not caught up to AI-assisted attacks or AI-eager employees. Created and led by Direnzic, the module trains recognition and escalation for AI-generated phishing, deepfake voice requests, fake executive instructions, shadow AI use, and sensitive data exposure, then tests that behavior through social engineering drills and scenario rounds. Your people learn what can and cannot be shared with AI tools, matched to your data types and obligations, and exactly what to do the moment something feels wrong.
Anchored by ACRA™, measured by the Scorecard
The program does not add another assessment to your calendar. It uses the right instrument for each job.
ACRA Executive Snapshot: your starting baseline
Where appropriate, the program begins with the ACRA Executive Snapshot, Direnzic's executive-level view of your AI and cyber governance and maturity. It answers "where do we stand today" once, credibly, so the program's progress is measured against a real starting point.
The Scorecard: your quarterly operating dashboard
The Cyber Behavior & Crisis Readiness Scorecard tracks how the program is performing quarter to quarter: training completion, phishing performance, reporting behavior, tabletop observations, AI-risk readiness, corrective action status, and leadership readiness.
When the Scorecard or a tabletop exposes structural gaps in governance, accountability, or resilience architecture, Comprehensive ACRA provides the deeper maturity work, and the ARG + CR Program provides ongoing governance. The program tells you when that moment arrives. Nothing is bought before it is needed.
Three tiers. One readiness standard.
Every tier is managed by Direnzic and reported quarterly. Choose the depth your organization and obligations require.
Swipe left and right to compare all three tiers.
| Tier 1Workforce Readiness | Tier 2Behavior & Response Readiness | Tier 3Cyber Crisis Leadership | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Organizations building a real awareness foundation, and MSP partners packaging readiness for clients | Organizations with compliance obligations or operational dependencies that need response tested, not just trained | Critical infrastructure, water utilities, municipalities, transit, aerospace and defense suppliers, manufacturers, and executive teams accountable to the public |
| Core components | NINJIO training seats, monthly phishing simulations, AI Safety Module (core), reporting-behavior tracking, quarterly report, Scorecard (workforce view) | Everything in Tier 1, plus role-based readiness paths, full AI Safety Module with social engineering drills, semiannual tabletops with decision injects, After-Action Improvement Plans, full Scorecard | Everything in Tier 2, plus quarterly sector-specific tabletops, executive decision injects and leadership challenges, executive readiness reviews, annual executive readiness summary, optional board or council briefing |
| Pain addressed | Employees keep clicking. Training is a checkbox. Insurers want proof of a managed program. | The response plan has never been practiced. Managers do not know their role when something is reported. | Executives cannot afford to freeze. Regulators, councils, and the public expect demonstrated leadership readiness. |
| Primary outcomes | Lower phishing susceptibility, rising reporting rates, documented quarterly evidence | A tested reporting and escalation chain, managers ready for the first hour, documented after-action improvement | An executive team that has practiced severe scenarios, clear decision authority under pressure, defensible readiness evidence |
| Cadence | Monthly training and simulations, quarterly review | Monthly training and simulations, quarterly scenario rounds and checkpoints, two tabletops per year | Monthly training and simulations, quarterly tabletops with executive injects, annual readiness summary |
| Add-ons | ACRA Executive Snapshot, annual tabletop, extra simulation campaigns | ACRA Executive Snapshot or Comprehensive ACRA, additional tabletop, executive session, board briefing | Cyber Crisis Leadership Program™, Comprehensive ACRA, ARG + CR, multi-agency tabletop coordination |
A year of readiness, one quarter at a time
The program runs on four quarterly themes. Each theme sets the training focus, the simulation style, the tabletop scenarios, and the Scorecard emphasis. Year two escalates from a stronger baseline.
Recognize
Baseline and launch. ACRA Executive Snapshot where included, training kickoff, baseline phishing simulation, and the AI Safety & Social Engineering Module. Your starting readiness score is established.
Respond
Reporting and escalation under pressure. Social engineering drills, response checkpoints, and the first tabletop focused on the path from detection to escalation. First corrective action sprint begins.
Recover
Continuity and after-action discipline. Scenario rounds built on business email compromise, ransomware, and operational disruption. Tabletop focused on containment, continuity, and communication.
Lead
Leadership readiness and evidence. Executive injects and the leadership challenge, executive readiness review, annual readiness summary, optional board or council briefing, and year-two planning.
Built for organizations where confusion is not an option
If you operate critical infrastructure, serve the public, or answer to regulators and customers, an incident is not just an IT event. It is an operational, safety, and public trust event. Generic scenarios build generic readiness, so Direnzic's tabletop library and scenario rounds are matched to your sector. The decisions your team practices are the decisions they would actually face.
Water utilities
A suspicious login to a SCADA-adjacent workstation, a phished operations employee, and a compliance notification clock already running. Who calls the state? Who talks to the public?
Municipalities
Ransomware hits permitting and payment systems the week of a council meeting. Residents notice before the IT vendor does. Practice the first hours, not just the press release.
Transit
A deepfake voice call to dispatch requests a system change during peak service. Fare systems and rider communications are affected. Safety and service decisions collide.
Manufacturing
Business email compromise reroutes a six-figure supplier payment while a plant-floor workstation shows signs of intrusion. Production, finance, and IT need one playbook.
Aerospace & defense suppliers
A spear-phishing campaign targets engineers with access to controlled technical data. Customer notification obligations and CMMC expectations shape every decision.
Regulated businesses
An employee pastes client data into an unapproved AI tool, and an auditor asks how you monitor for exactly that. Evidence of a managed program changes the conversation.
What lands on your desk
Every quarter produces documentation you can hand to leadership, auditors, insurers, boards, and councils.
- Training launch plan with role mapping and communications
- Quarterly readiness reports for management
- Cyber Behavior & Crisis Readiness Scorecard, updated quarterly
- Tabletop agenda and professional facilitation
- Scenario injects matched to your sector and tier
- After-Action Improvement Plan following each exercise
- Corrective action roadmap with owners and deadlines
- Executive readiness summary
- Optional board or council briefing delivered by Direnzic
Readiness expertise where the stakes are highest
Direnzic is a cybersecurity and AI governance firm built around one conviction: invisible risk becomes manageable the moment it becomes visible, and visible risk becomes survivable the moment leadership has practiced it.
Critical infrastructure focus
Deep experience with water utilities, municipalities, transit, aerospace and defense suppliers, and manufacturing, where incidents affect safety, service, and public trust.
Cybersecurity and AI governance
Direnzic works at the intersection of cyber risk and AI risk, from ACRA™ assessments to the ARG + CR governance program, so your readiness program reflects both threat landscapes.
Incident readiness and tabletop facilitation
Facilitated exercises with decision injects that pressure-test real escalation paths, real authority chains, and real communication plans, followed by disciplined after-action improvement.
Executive crisis leadership
Through the Cyber Crisis Leadership Program™, Direnzic prepares executives to make clear decisions under pressure. That leadership discipline is built into this program's design.
Program management, not product resale
Direnzic architects, runs, and continuously improves your program. NINJIO powers the training layer. Direnzic owns the outcome.
Evidence-first reporting
Everything the program does produces documentation that stands up in front of auditors, insurers, regulators, boards, and councils.
Close the blind spot before an attacker finds it.
Talk with a Direnzic crisis-readiness expert about where your organization stands and which tier fits. No pressure, no fear tactics, just a clear-eyed conversation about the evidence you have and the evidence you need.