Cyberattitudes: How to Measure True Behavioral Change in Cybersecurity

Cyberattitudes encourage employees to adopt safe practices in their daily routines and turn each action into concrete metrics. Learn how they can help your company track the evolution of its digital security culture.

Measuring behavioral change in cybersecurity has always been a challenge for organizations. After all, how can you tell if your investment in training is truly generating secure habits in everyday life?

Cyberattitudes were created to fill this gap: they allow managers to monitor, in real time, the evolution of employee behavior and prove whether the knowledge acquired in training is actually being put into practice.

What are cyberattitudes and why do they matter?

Cyberattitudes work as an active communication channel between employees and managers, allowing every security-related action to be recorded and analyzed. This can include identifying a risk within the company—such as a suspicious email or exposed document—or positive actions like enabling two-factor authentication, helping a colleague create stronger passwords, or guiding a family member on how to avoid online scams.

By transforming these actions into tangible data, cyberattitudes allow program leaders to clearly see whether employees are applying what they’ve learned in training and whether the cybersecurity culture is being absorbed both inside the company and beyond, into employees’ personal lives.

Measuring your program’s impact with different types of cyberattitudes

Reporting a security risk

This type of cyberattitude allows employees to put their learning into practice and strengthens their vigilance against real threats. Common examples include:

• Detecting signs of phishing in an email.
• Noticing an internal document being publicly shared.
• Identifying suspicious behavior in systems or corporate logins.
  

For companies, these reports are extremely valuable as they provide practical visibility into everyday risks and demonstrate the level of awareness and engagement employees have in protecting the digital environment.

Applying knowledge or helping a colleague

This type of cyberattitude records moments when employees turn knowledge into action, applying what they’ve learned or helping others adopt good security practices. Examples include:

• Enabling multifactor authentication.
• Helping a colleague lock their computer screen before leaving their desk.
• Teaching family members how to spot phishing attempts.

Besides reinforcing individual learning, this demonstrates how cybersecurity awareness often extends beyond individuals and companies, spreading into other contexts and broadening the impact of security culture.

Inviting a colleague

This cyberattitude motivates employees to bring colleagues into the program, expanding participation and strengthening collective engagement.

This ripple effect creates a positive cycle: the more people involved, the greater the exchange of experiences, interactions, and reinforcement of security culture. In practice, it’s an organic and collaborative way of making awareness a natural part of the company’s routine.

Cyberattitudes as an engagement driver in the game

Beyond being a strategic tool to measure results, cyberattitudes also play a central role in the Hacker Rangers program. They are used in weekly challenges, earn extra points, and directly impact overall, monthly, and weekly rankings.

This means every recorded action not only reinforces learning but also boosts motivation and healthy competition among employees. As a result, the program remains dynamic, engaging, and capable of turning awareness into a continuous, fun experience.

The benefit for your company

More than just a metric, cyberattitudes act as a thermometer of digital security culture maturity in your company. They provide valuable insights for managers, helping identify:

• Levels of team engagement.
• Secure behavior patterns that are starting to consolidate.
• Areas or teams that require greater attention.
  

In practice, cyberattitudes connect strategy with behavior, enabling companies not only to educate but also to prove and track the evolution of their security culture over time.

Change behavior and build a true culture

Your company will only be protected when learning turns into action. With Hacker Rangers, every employee feels motivated to change their posture toward digital threats. Try it free for 30 days and see real behavioral change.