Behaviour-Led Security Awareness Programmes on the Wave Platform

Awareways is a Dutch security awareness company founded in 2012 and based in Utrecht. It works with large organisations and government agencies, including Dutch government ministries, financial institutions, and utilities, that want to move past annual compliance training toward measurable behaviour change. Rather than selling a course library alone, it pairs software with dedicated programme managers who handle implementation and ongoing delivery, which suits organisations without a full-time awareness team of their own.

The Wave platform is the delivery layer: a training dashboard with interactive formats including the Clickventure game, wrapped in a Human Resilience Model that combines behavioural psychology with data on how people actually act. Culture Scan measures where an organisation sits and how that shifts over time. Campaigns reframe security topics in internal communications to reinforce the training, and simulations cover email phishing, voice-based vishing, SMS smishing, and physical mystery guest visits.

Programmes are packaged in tiers, Shift, Plus, Pro, and Next, running from basic compliance coverage up to enterprise behavioural transformation, so a customer can start narrow and widen scope later. The company holds ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification, and states that its material meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility, which matters for public-sector buyers with statutory accessibility duties. Professional services sit alongside the platform, with named programme managers supporting rollout and reporting.