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Security awareness training that employees actually complete

Joeri van de Watering
Co-founder / CEO, Guardey

Dear journalist,

My name is Joeri van de Watering, co-founder and CEO of Guardey. Before Guardey, we built GOOSE VPN, a Dutch consumer VPN we launched in 2016. That taught us one thing: the weakest link in cybersecurity is rarely the technology. It is the moment someone clicks.

We founded Guardey in 2022 to change that moment. Guardey is a security awareness training and phishing simulation platform. Employees train in short, gamified challenges of three minutes a week, and organisations test and measure how their people respond to realistic phishing. More than 500 organisations use Guardey, from small teams to large organisations such as the European Parliament, with training tailored to their sector and to regulations such as NIS2.

On this page you will find background on Guardey, our management team and our latest press release. For questions, interviews or data on how employees respond to phishing, contact us at [email protected].

Sincerely,


Joeri van de Watering

What Guardey does

One platform to train employees and to test how they respond to real threats.

  • Security awareness training
    Weekly three-minute challenges with a storyline, leaderboards and streaks
  • Phishing simulations
    Realistic campaigns from 100+ templates, with insight into who clicks and who reports
  • Compliance and reporting
    Audit-ready reports for NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and industry-specific standards

Management of Guardey

Anouk ter Harmsel
Anouk ter Harmsel
Co-founder & COO
Joeri van de Watering
Joeri van de Watering
Co-founder & CEO
Rob Bruinsma
Co-founder & advisory board

Guardey in numbers

500+

organisations use Guardey

3 min

of training per week

10+

training languages

100%

Dutch security awareness platform

Why Guardey exists

Most incidents start with a human action: a click, a reused password, a convincing phone call. AI makes those attacks cheaper and more convincing every month.

We created Guardey so every organisation, whatever its size or sector, can turn its employees from a security risk into part of its defence.

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