Cyber and AI awareness training, business continuity plans and tabletop disaster exercises for small businesses. Onsite in West Sussex, live online UK-wide.
Turn your team into the part of your defences that works.
Put AI to work in your business without opening a new security hole.
Close the obvious gaps and get ready for the standards clients ask about.
Decide what you would do while everything is still working.
Cyber Essentials is the government-backed scheme, run by IASME on behalf of the NCSC, that clients and insurers increasingly ask small businesses to hold. We work through the five controls with you, fix what needs fixing, and have your answers ready so the assessment is a formality rather than a scramble. The certificate itself is issued by a licensed certification body, not by us.
Practical, plain-English courses that upskill your team on cyber security and safe AI use. Delivered onsite across West Sussex, live online UK-wide, or self-paced through the learning portal. Every course is built around a real small business, not an enterprise.
All prices exclude VAT. Onsite delivery is included across West Sussex. Audits and multi-site continuity work are quoted per project, and schools, charities and community groups pay considerably less.
Staying safe online is not just a workplace concern. We run the same plain-English sessions for schools and public groups across West Sussex, tailored to the room rather than a corporate audience.
Age-appropriate sessions for students, plus practical guidance for teachers and support staff. Spotting scams, protecting personal information and thinking before you click.
Talks and drop-in sessions for the freelancers, founders and small teams who share a space, and often a Wi-Fi network. Simple habits that protect everyone in the building.
Libraries, clubs, charities and local organisations wanting friendly, jargon-free online-safety talks for their members or volunteers.
A short call to understand your team, your risks and any compliance you are aiming for. No obligation and no sales pressure.
We build the session around your business (your systems and your sector’s real threats) rather than handing over a generic slide deck.
Onsite at your premises or live online. Interactive, practical and paced for non-technical staff, so it actually sticks.
A short knowledge check and completion certificates show what landed and give you evidence for insurers, clients or an audit.
Woodruff Training is run by Adam Woodruff, who pairs four years as a DevOps software engineer with three years spent part-time as a defence analyst, on top of formal study in business management, risk management and software development. The technical side, the threat side and the business side, together in one person.
The result is security advice in plain English, with no jargon and no scare tactics. Small businesses across West Sussex get practical, honest guidance that weighs real risk against a real budget, from someone who answers their own email rather than passing you to a support queue.
No. Training is the core, but we also write business continuity plans with you, run tabletop disaster exercises, help your team adopt AI tools safely, roll out MFA and password managers, run domain and email exposure checks, and prepare you for Cyber Essentials. Most clients start with one thing and build from there.
Everyone who would have to deal with a crisis sits down together, a realistic scenario unfolds, and the group works out what they would actually do. Ransomware on the shared drive, no access to the building on a Monday morning, a supplier that has stopped answering the phone. Nothing is plugged in and nobody needs to be technical. It usually takes two to three hours, and it is the cheapest way to find out that three people each thought a fourth had the backups.
You already have one, it is just unwritten and it assumes you are available. Writing it down matters most for the smallest businesses, because there is nobody spare to work it out on the day. Ours run to a handful of pages rather than forty, and there is a free template on the resources page if you would rather do it yourself. Clients, insurers and tender documents have also started asking to see one.
Not at all. Every session is built for everyday employees and deliberately avoids jargon. If your team can use email, they will follow the training and take something useful away.
Both. We run in-person sessions across West Sussex and live, interactive sessions online for teams anywhere in the UK. Plenty of clients mix the two: an onsite kick-off, then online refreshers.
A core awareness workshop runs around 60 to 90 minutes. Ongoing programmes use much shorter monthly refreshers designed to fit around a normal working day.
Staff awareness is a growing requirement for cyber insurance and a sensible step toward Cyber Essentials. We will show you what matters and get you ready, though the formal certificate itself is issued by a licensed certification body, not by us.
An initial workshop followed by refreshers is far more effective than a one-off. For most small businesses, a session when people join plus quarterly or annual top-ups works well.
Woodruff Training covers West Sussex and works remotely across the UK.