Neil Cesario
Co-Founder, vCISOLeads Sterling’s cybersecurity advisory practice, bringing experience in payments, security and incident response to the curriculum.
FRCT Cyber First Aid
Cyber First Aid.
Ready for the
first response.
When prevention fails, someone has to act before the experts arrive. We train the person already standing there.
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THE FRCT PROTOCOLA moment of uncertainty.
A response you have practised.
01Assess.Recognise the hazard.
02Block.Limit the exposure.
03Hand off.Bring in the right help.
90 minutes of training. A protocol you can use.
Practical workplace training built around three actions: Assess, Block, Hand Off.
About Averti Institute
Closing the gap between prevention and professional response.
Averti Institute develops FRCT Cyber First Aid, our workplace cyber first response programme. FRCT began with a cybersecurity workshop at the University of Windsor in 2023. The questions kept coming back to one thing: what should someone do when an attack is happening?
That question became our focus. We develop practical cyber first response training that helps employees recognise a hazard, follow an approved containment procedure and give their IT team a useful incident report.
Our work brings together cybersecurity practice, academic research and experience building repeatable delivery systems.
Our team
The people behind FRCT.
Dr. Ziad Kobti
Co-Founder, Institutional Partnerships & Programme DeliveryLeads training agreements and facilitates programme delivery through relationships with universities, colleges and institutional partners. Brings research leadership from the University of Windsor School of Computer Science.
Peachers Madarang-Cesario
COO, Strategic PartnershipsLeads operations and strategic partnerships, drawing on experience operating multi-site franchise businesses across Ontario and developing repeatable delivery systems.
Research and practice.
Working together.
The FRCT project is funded by the National Cybersecurity Consortium, with WEtech Alliance as industry partner, the University of Windsor as academic partner, and Sterling Cybersecurity & Advisory Group delivering the work.
Employer input shapes the sector editions, keeping scenarios grounded in the environments where people will use them.
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