About CIPHIUM
Building trust through transparency in offensive cybersecurity
Our Story
CIPHIUM was founded by a team of cybersecurity professionals who shared a simple but powerful belief: the best defense starts with understanding human vulnerability. After years of working in enterprise security, they saw the same pattern repeat itself — organizations invested millions in firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint protection, yet breaches continued to occur. The common thread? Human error, responsible for over 90% of security incidents.
Existing solutions were fragmented. Some were prohibitively expensive, locking out small and mid-sized businesses. Others relied on generic, checkbox-style training that employees dismissed within minutes. Worst of all, many treated people as the weakest link rather than the strongest potential line of defense. CIPHIUM was born to change that narrative — to bridge the gap between technical defenses and human awareness with empathetic, honest, and effective security solutions.
Today, CIPHIUM empowers organizations of every size to understand their human risk posture through realistic phishing simulations, with advanced vishing, smishing, and deepfake simulations coming soon. We believe security awareness should be engaging, measurable, and rooted in trust. Our platform does not punish employees for clicking a link; instead, it turns every interaction into a learning moment, building a culture where people become an active part of the security ecosystem.
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we build
Trust
We build security solutions with the same rigor we'd want protecting our own organizations. Transparency in our methods, honesty in our results.
Empathy
We understand that employees aren't the problem — they're the solution. Our training empowers rather than punishes.
Innovation
From deepfake simulations to AI-driven analytics, we stay ahead of attackers so our clients can too.
By The Numbers
Real impact, measurable results