Security Awareness Training for MAS-Regulated and Singapore Enterprises
MAS expects comprehensive IT security awareness programmes with annual training for staff, contractors, and board members. A-SAT delivers adaptive phishing, smishing, deepfake, and voice-clone simulations with audit-ready reporting.
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For teams whose evidence has to survive a technology risk review
Change behaviour with realistic, personalised simulations
Four channels, one adaptive platform, covering employees, contractors and board members — with the reporting each group needs shown separately.
Reporting, not just clicking
Train the behaviour a two-hour window depends on
Every simulation measures report rate and time-to-report, not just who clicked. Under the incident notification obligations that took effect on 31 October 2025, how fast your people escalate is the number that decides whether you meet the window.
- Report rate and median time-to-report by department
- One-click reporting built into the simulation flow
- Recognition rewarded, not just failure punished
Your corporate account access expires today. Re-verify your login to avoid suspension:
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Good catch. Reporting is the behaviour that matters — it is what starts the clock on a two-hour notification window.
Point-of-click training
Catch the click at the exact moment it happens
When someone clicks, taps or complies, micro-training fires immediately — while the lesson lands. A module assigned three weeks later connects to nothing.
- Instant micro-lesson tied to what was missed
- Live risk score per user drives difficulty
- High-risk staff get more; low-risk staff are left alone
Vendor account update — process before cut-off
from: treasury@aspire-tss-finance.co
Kindly update the beneficiary details before today's payment run…
3 clues you can spot next time:
- Look-alike domain
- Cut-off pressure
- Beneficiary change by email
Beyond email
Meet a deepfake before a criminal introduces you to one
A cloned voice needs about thirty seconds of audio; a deepfake video needs a short clip. Around two-thirds of employees cannot reliably spot AI-generated video — a controlled test is a better place to learn that than a payment instruction.
- Photorealistic deepfake video from a short clip
- Live conversational AI voice-clone calls
- Dark web credential exposure fed into risk profiles
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The evidence file
Audit-ready evidence, generated not assembled
MAS expects a comprehensive programme covering staff, contractors and board, reviewed annually. Reporting is automated and mapped to PDPA, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and PCI DSS v4.0 — with separate views per population.
- Per-user completion by department, role and population
- Click rate, report rate and repeat-offender tracking
- Board and contractor coverage evidenced separately
Human risk dashboard
MAS TRM · Cyber Hygiene · PDPA · ISO 27001
Phishing click rate — trending down
85%
fewer security incidents
92%
training completion
Staff, contractors and board — across four channels
MAS frames the awareness expectation as covering employees, contractors and board members. Most platforms cover one channel for one of those groups. A-SAT covers four channels for all three, with separate reporting views for each.
SMS smishing
AI-generated SMS modelled on the messages your staff actually receive — corporate access notices, bank alerts, delivery and payment confirmations — with mobile-optimised landing pages.
Deepfake video
Upload a short clip; the platform generates a photorealistic avatar for a simulated executive-impersonation attack.
Voice cloning (vishing)
A cloned voice from around 30 seconds of audio; an AI agent calls staff and holds a live conversation, responding in real time.
Dark web monitoring
Continuous scanning of breach data for compromised staff credentials — included from the entry tier, not sold separately.
Singapore compliance
Two hours is not an IT problem. It is a people problem.
Since 31 October 2025, CII owners have had to notify CSA within two hours of becoming aware of a reportable incident. No security team becomes aware of anything until somebody reports it. If the person who receives the message does not recognise it and does not escalate it, the two-hour clock is already running and nobody has started counting.
Awareness training is usually sold as prevention. Under a two-hour reporting obligation it is also detection speed — and that is measurable.
MAS TRM Guidelines
IT security awareness programmeSet out risk management principles and best practices for financial institutions to establish sound technology risk governance and maintain cyber resilience. They call for a comprehensive IT security awareness training programme to maintain a high level of awareness among all staff — with annual cyber awareness training expected for employees, contractors and board members.
MAS Notice on Cyber Hygiene
Legally binding since 6 August 2020Mandatory baseline cyber hygiene practices for financial institutions in Singapore. Unlike the Guidelines, this is a Notice — non-compliance is a supervisory matter, not a best-practice discussion. The MAS Notice on Technology Risk Management separately took effect on 10 May 2024.
Cybersecurity (Amendment) Act
Key provisions in force 31 October 2025Expands CSA oversight to new classes of regulated entity, including Systems of Temporary Cybersecurity Concern, and explicitly covers third-party-owned CII including systems hosted overseas. CII owners must report incidents reasonably suspected to involve advanced persistent threats, and disruptions to essential services even in non-interconnected systems — with notification to CSA within two hours.
PDPA
Reasonable security arrangementsRequires reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data. The PDPC has repeatedly identified inadequate staff training and awareness as a contributing factor in its enforcement decisions.
CSA Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust
Certification marksSingapore certification path for organisations, aligned by CSA with IMDA pre-approved solution categories under SMEs Go Digital. For SMEs this is the practical route to a recognised cyber posture — and staff awareness is part of it.
The chain that a two-hour window actually depends on
Most awareness programmes optimise for a lower click rate. Under a two-hour notification obligation, the more useful number is how quickly a suspicious thing gets reported — and by how many people.
Someone notices
An employee receives the message, the call or the video. Nothing happens until this person recognises that something is wrong.
Someone reports
Recognition only counts if it is escalated. Report rate — not click rate — is the metric that decides how fast your organisation can respond.
The team responds
Your SOC can only act on what reaches it. Every minute of hesitation upstream is a minute the response team never gets back.
A-SAT tracks report rate and median time-to-report by department, so you can evidence detection speed rather than assert it.
What organisations see
average reduction in security incidents
training completion rate
organisations served
Measured across Aspire Tech client deployments. Methodology and measurement period available on request.
How A-SAT compares
Incumbents have longer APAC track records — we say so. The rows that decide it are reporting speed, deepfake, vishing and coverage of contractors and board.
| Capability | A-SAT | Typical enterprise platform |
|---|---|---|
| Email phishing simulation | Yes, AI-generated, continuously refreshed | Yes, large template library |
| Report rate and time-to-report tracking | Yes, by department, as a primary metric | Click rate first, reporting secondary |
| SMS smishing simulation | Yes | Rare |
| Deepfake video simulation | Yes, self-service avatar creation | Not available |
| Voice-clone (vishing) simulation | Yes, live conversational AI agent | Not available |
| Contractor and board coverage | Separate reporting views per population | Employees only |
| Dark web credential monitoring | Included from entry tier | Separate product |
| Point-of-click micro-training | Immediate, at moment of failure | Batch assignment |
| Adaptive per-user difficulty | Yes, driven by live risk score | Partial |
| APAC market presence | New entrant | Established regional teams |
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Built for your regulator
MAS-regulated financial institutions
TRM Guidelines and the Cyber Hygiene Notice, with annual awareness coverage evidenced for staff, contractors and board.
CII owners
Incident reporting obligations under the amended Cybersecurity Act, including third-party-owned and overseas-hosted systems.
SMEs pursuing Cyber Essentials
The staff awareness component of CSA certification, with reporting you can hand to an assessor.
Healthcare and public services
Sensitive personal data under the PDPA, with role-based paths for clinical and administrative staff.
Regional headquarters
One platform across APAC entities, with country and entity-level reporting views.
How deployment works
- 1
Discovery call, 30 minutes
We map your staff, contractor and board populations against what the TRM Guidelines and Cyber Hygiene Notice expect. Available within 24 hours.
- 2
Pilot
A defined group with a baseline simulation, so you see the real click rate and the real report rate before anything changes.
- 3
Directory integration
Active Directory, Okta, SAML or HR system sync, with contractor populations kept separate.
- 4
Rollout
Role-based paths assigned, adaptive simulation schedule begins — in days, not quarters.
- 5
First evidence file
Baseline versus current, with coverage evidenced separately for employees, contractors and board.
A 30-day free trial is available, or start with a scoped pilot.
Pricing
Plans start from $1.17 per user per month, billed annually. Every plan includes phishing simulation, adaptive training, risk profiling and dark web exposure monitoring. Higher tiers add 24/7 support, automated compliance reporting, real-time attack simulation and SOC integration. 30-day free trial.
SGD pricing and GST treatment confirmed on your quotation.
See it against your own environment
Thirty minutes, a live walkthrough, and a straight answer on what it takes to evidence a programme that covers staff, contractors and board — and how fast your people actually report.
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Frequently asked questions
What does MAS require for security awareness training?
The MAS Technology Risk Management Guidelines call for a comprehensive IT security awareness training programme to maintain a high level of awareness among all staff, with annual cyber awareness training expected for employees, contractors and board members.
Is the MAS Notice on Cyber Hygiene mandatory?
Yes. It has been legally binding on financial institutions in Singapore since 6 August 2020 and sets mandatory baseline cyber hygiene requirements — distinct from the Guidelines, which set expectations and best practice. The MAS Notice on Technology Risk Management separately took effect on 10 May 2024.
How quickly must CII owners report an incident to CSA?
Under provisions of the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Act that came into force on 31 October 2025, CII owners must notify CSA within two hours of becoming aware of a reportable incident. Reporting obligations were also expanded to cover incidents reasonably suspected to involve advanced persistent threats, and disruptions to essential services arising in non-interconnected systems under a CII owner control.
Does the PDPA require staff training?
The PDPA requires reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data. PDPC enforcement decisions have repeatedly cited inadequate staff training and awareness as contributing to breaches, so training is a practical component of meeting that obligation.
Does A-SAT cover contractors and board members?
Yes. Training and simulations can be assigned to contractors and board members with separate reporting views for each population, which matches how MAS frames the awareness expectation.
Can A-SAT simulate deepfake and voice-phishing attacks?
Yes. Administrators can generate a photorealistic avatar from a short video clip for deepfake simulations, and the platform AI agent can call staff using a cloned voice and hold a live conversation, tracking who complied, who questioned and who reported.
How quickly can we deploy?
Most customers run their first simulation within a few business days of contract, including directory integration and administrator setup. A 30-day free trial is available if you want to run a pilot first.
What does A-SAT cost?
Plans start from $1.17 per user per month, billed annually, including phishing simulation, adaptive training, risk profiling and dark web exposure monitoring. Higher tiers add 24/7 support, automated compliance reporting, real-time attack simulation and SOC integration. SGD pricing and GST treatment are confirmed on quotation.