EMEA CISOs are calling time on traditional security awareness training, as new research reveals that 78% believe their approach to security awareness education urgently needs to evolve.
London – May 23, 2026 – EMEA CISOs are calling time on traditional security awareness training, as new research reveals that 78% believe their approach to security awareness education urgently needs to evolve. The research from MetaCompliance, the human cyber risk management company transforming how organisations build resilient security cultures, highlights the widespread concern among CISOs that current methods are failing to address human cyber risk.
The study, which surveyed 200 CISOs across the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and France, found that 81% of CISOs say security awareness programmes fail because they treat human cyber risk as a training issue rather than a wider risk management challenge. At the same time, 68% of businesses identify employees as their biggest security risk, highlighting a persistent and unresolved vulnerability at the heart of…
