Solid Elf Research

Research

Training, Security Awareness & Capacity Building

Building the teams that sustain the work.

Purpose & context

Building the teams that sustain the work.

Every training programme is built from our active research and tailored to participant contexts. We cover cybersecurity, privacy engineering, safe data collection, threat awareness, and responsible AI, delivering practical skills that teams can apply immediately.

A good fit when

  • Staff need safer everyday digital habits.
  • Engineers need practical security or privacy skills.
  • Teams need to rehearse difficult response decisions.

What we cover

Focused work. Useful evidence.

Design and deliver cybersecurity training for teams and organisations

Build privacy engineering capacity through hands-on workshops

Train field teams on secure data collection and handling

Develop threat awareness programmes calibrated to local attack patterns

Create self-paced learning materials and documentation

What you take forward

Outputs designed to be used.

The final scope is agreed together. Depending on your needs, the engagement can include:

  • Role-specific learning plan
  • Facilitated exercises and practical materials
  • Learning assessment and feedback
  • Follow-up actions and reference guidance

How we approach it

From the question to a practical next step.

Start with the roles

Understand the tasks participants perform and the risks they encounter. Set clear learning goals for staff, technical teams or decision-makers rather than use one syllabus for everyone.

Practise realistic situations

Use bounded exercises such as suspicious-message reporting, access reviews, safe data handling or incident coordination. Create an environment where people can ask questions without blame.

Support continued use

Review what participants can do after the session. Provide concise reference materials, agree follow-up actions and identify the internal owners who will sustain the practice.

Illustrative use case

What this can look like in practice.

A mixed team needs to improve its response to suspicious requests. Staff can practise checking and reporting messages while administrators rehearse account recovery and escalation. Each group learns the actions relevant to its role, using the same response process.

An example of the work—not a client case study.

Reference frameworks

Explore independent guidance that can inform the scope and evaluation criteria for this work. These links do not imply accreditation or endorsement.

Planning an engagement

What should we prepare?

Bring the decision you need to make, a description of the relevant systems or data, known constraints and your timeline. We can agree the appropriate access and confidentiality arrangements before any sensitive information is shared.

How do we define success?

We agree specific questions and useful outputs at the start. Outputs such as role-specific learning plan are reviewed against the decisions you need to make. Limitations, dependencies and follow-up work remain visible in the handover.

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