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Cowkeeper Academy

Smarter employees.
Safer businesses.

Original security lessons your team will finish: five minutes each, built around situations they'll really face, graded for real, and tied directly to each person's SecureStart.

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3–5 minute lessonsServer-graded quizzesCertificates with verificationNo leaderboards
no 40-minute videos, promise

Training people actually remember.

Most security training is a video nobody watches and a quiz everyone games. We built the Academy from the ground up to be the opposite.

Inspect real-looking emailsHover the sender, the link, the attachment. Decide: report or reply. Get told exactly which tell you caught or missed, with no shame attached.
Graded on the server, not the browserScores, attempts and certificates are issued by Cowkeeper's backend. Nobody can self-issue a pass, which is why SecureStart can trust a completion.
Refreshers before things lapseCompletions expire on a schedule you set. Reminders go out before the due date, and your dashboard shows training coverage by team, not by name.
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Social Engineering: the phone call.

A sample from our Social Engineering, Impersonation & Phone Scams course. All names and companies are fictional.

Course length: 3 lessons · 12 minutesPassing score: 80% · 3 attempts, then your IT Manager unlocks moreAccessibility: keyboard-only, screen-reader text alternatives, no timers
Scenario 2 of 4Sample lesson
Incoming call, 4:52 p.m. Friday. "Hi, this is Marcus from Cowkeeper support. We're seeing malware on your laptop and I need to remote in right now before it spreads to the whole company. Can you read me the code on your screen?"

What do you do?

2 of 4 · about 3 min left

The catalog.

Security Essentials is assigned to everyone in SecureStart. Role courses are added by template: finance gets fraud, admins get privileged access, sales gets data sharing.

Essentials15 min
Spot the PhishLinks, senders, QR codes, attachments, and how to report in one click.Everyone
Essentials12 min
Passwords, Passkeys & MFAWhy codes are yours alone, how passkeys work, what to do when a phone is lost.Everyone
Essentials10 min
Protect Your LaptopEncryption, updates, screen lock, public Wi-Fi, and what "enrolled" means.Everyone
Essentials12 min
Safe Sharing & Company DataWho should see what, link settings, and the oversharing mistakes everyone makes.Everyone
Role-specific12 min
Social Engineering, Impersonation & Phone ScamsPretext calls, fake IT, urgent executives, and the pause that stops them.Front desk, ops, finance
Role-specific10 min
Remote Work SafetyHome networks, shared spaces, travel, and keeping work on work devices.Remote and hybrid staff
Role-specific10 min
AI Safety & Sensitive InformationWhat never goes into a chatbot, approved tools, and how to check before you paste.Everyone using AI tools
Role-specific14 min
Privileged AccessAdmin rights are a liability: least privilege, approvals, and clean handoffs.Managers and administrators
Role-specific15 min
Finance & Invoice FraudChanged bank details, CEO urgency, vendor impersonation, and the callback rule.Finance and AP
Essentials6 min
Reporting a Security IncidentWhat counts, how fast, who to tell, and why early reports are never punished.Everyone
Not off the shelf

Phishing training written by your Cowkeepers, for your company.

The Academy's core courses teach the fundamentals. Your Cowkeeper security specialist builds the rest around you: the vendors you pay, the tools you use, the roles attackers would impersonate, the seasons when you're busiest. Then they run the sessions in person.

1
Threat picture
A short interview and a look at your public footprint: what a scammer would learn about you in an afternoon.
2
Custom scenarios
Hand-written, fictional, specific: your industry, your workflows, your busiest week. Reviewed by a second Cowkeeper before you see them.
3
Approved practice
You approve each drill. It goes only to your verified domains, lands on a teaching page with no inputs, and assigns a follow-up lesson.
4
Phish & Learn, live
A 20-minute session per team led by your Cowkeeper: what happened, what to notice, what to do. No names, no shame, real questions.
Scenario library · built for Northstar CreativeDEMO
FINANCE · ran Sep 12"Changed bank details" from the print vendor83% reported · 2 clicked · follow-ups done
CREATIVE · awaiting approval"Client shared a design file" from a lookalike agencyAudience 28 · new hires excluded
ACCOUNTS · drafting"Urgent: CEO needs gift cards for client thank-yous"Timed for the holiday rush
EVERYONE · drafting"Your parking pass expires today" from building managementBased on your office's real routine
Next live sessionPhish & Learn · Finance & AccountsThu Oct 23 · 2:00 pm · 20 min · led by your Cowkeeper security specialistAgenda: the bank-details drill, tell by tell · the callback rule · questions
What never happens
  • No real brand, vendor or person is impersonated
  • No password, code or payment field, ever
  • No sending outside your verified domains
  • No leaderboard, no names to managers
Practice that teaches, never traps

Honest numbers,
no wall of shame.

Authorized awareness exercises for your own team, with safe landing pages that explain the tells instead of collecting anything. Results feed training, not a leaderboard.

  • Only for your company, only to your verified domains, only with your approval
  • Never asks for passwords, codes or payment details; never impersonates a real vendor
  • New hires and people on leave are excluded automatically
  • Reports counted as the win they are; scanner clicks filtered out

Included with every plan.

Cowkeeper Academy is our software, not a resold course library. It comes with your subscription, assigned automatically through SecureStart.

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