AI Security Awareness for Staff

All staff — a whole-company awareness session.

Spot AI-powered scams, deepfakes and data leaks — and use AI tools without putting the company at risk.

AI has made fake emails, cloned voices and deepfake video cheap and fast to produce, so the threats your staff face are getting harder to tell apart from the real thing. At the same time, well-meaning employees can leak sensitive information just by pasting it into the wrong tool. A short awareness session now is one of the cheapest ways to close both gaps across the whole company.

• Recognise how attackers now use AI for phishing, voice cloning and deepfakes
• Spot a fake before it costs you or the company
• Tell safe ways of using AI tools at work from unsafe ones
• Know exactly what should never be shared with an AI tool
• Act quickly and correctly the moment something looks wrong
• Leave with a one-page AI safe-use guide every employee can follow

1. How attackers now use AI: phishing, voice and deepfakes

   • Why cheap AI has made scams more convincing and easier to run at scale
   • AI-written phishing by email, text, voice call and QR code
   • Cloned voices and deepfake video used to impersonate people you know
   • Fake messages built from public information about you and your company
   • Why old warning signs like bad grammar no longer keep you safe

2. Spotting a fake before it costs you

   • The tell-tale signs of an AI-powered scam
   • Urgency, authority and secrecy as classic manipulation tactics
   • Cues that an audio or video call may be a deepfake
   • Impersonation of executives, suppliers and the IT help desk
   • Pausing on any request to move money or change details

3. Verify before you act

   • Checking a request through a known, trusted channel — not the one it came from
   • Calling back on a number you already have, never one you were given
   • Confirming unusual payment or data requests with a second person
   • A simple habit of slowing down before high-stakes actions
   • Real-world scenarios to practise the verify-first reflex

4. Safe and unsafe ways to use AI tools at work

   • Which everyday ways of using AI tools are safe and which aren't
   • Approved company tools versus random tools off the internet
   • Why some tools are risky: they may keep or train on what you enter
   • Shadow AI — the danger of unapproved tools no one signed off
   • A simple decision step: is this task and data OK for AI?

5. What never to share with an AI tool

   • The information that must never be pasted into an outside AI tool
   • Customer data, personal data, passwords and confidential files
   • How a quick copy-paste can leak more than you realise
   • Recognising sensitive data even when it isn't labelled
   • Safe alternatives when you still want the tool's help

6. What to do when something looks wrong

   • Exactly who to tell and how, the moment you're suspicious
   • Why reporting fast matters even more than being certain
   • A no-blame culture so people own up to mistakes and near-misses
   • What to do if you think you've already clicked or shared something
   • Turning the whole team into an early-warning system

7. A one-page safe-use guide for everyone

   • The safe-use rules distilled onto a single page
   • A quick checklist for spotting and verifying a likely fake
   • The 'never share this' list every employee keeps
   • Who to contact and how to report, at a glance
   • A guide that works for every role, no technical background needed