CADACyber Awareness Development Assessment
Know your culture.
Strengthen your resilience.
Strengthen your resilience.
We're building a tool that helps SMEs assess their cybersecurity culture, benchmark themselves against peers, and identify measures to enhance organizational resilience.
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CURRENT PHASE — AUTUMN 2026
We're developing the CADA assessment tool.
The interviews are complete and the framework has been validated with Swiss SMEs. We are now testing the first items and are looking for organizations that want to pilot the assessment in early 2027.
About
Developing a targeted cybersecurity culture & awareness assessment tool.
CADA is a new Innosuisse-funded initiative rooted in interdisciplinary research. By analyzing the cultural and habit-anchoring factors within companies, we ensure that awareness-promoting measures are effective and make a meaningful contribution to organizational security.
Approach
1
Assess existing work
Structured review of academic papers, established theories, and prior frameworks on security culture and organizational resilience.
2
Merge to clusters
Synthesis of collected inputs into thematic clusters that capture key influences and recurring patterns across sources.
3
Contextualise
Refining cluster structure, defining intended purposes, and embedding them within practical organizational contexts.
Roadmap
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Q1 2026
Validation of CADA Framework
Validation of CADA Framework
WE ARE HERE
M1
Q4 2026
Milestone 1: CADA Framework for SMEs
Milestone 1: CADA Framework for SMEs
Milestone 2: Theoretical development
M2
Q2 2027
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Q3 2027
CADA prototype
CADA prototype
Milestone 3: Implementation
M3
Q1 2028
Team
Advisory Board
Nine experts from industry, academia, and the public sector guide the CADA project.
AWARENESS TALKS
Book us as a speaker.
Need a speaker on cybersecurity awareness, security culture, or the human factor? We give talks for conferences, management teams, and SME audiences across Switzerland.
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Supported by Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency
Swiss Accelerator innovation project · 115.489 IP-ICT
Help shape Swiss cybersecurity culture research.
We're looking for Swiss organizations of different sizes to pilot the CADA assessment in early 2027 and help make it useful in practice.
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