Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Survey Template

This employee cybersecurity awareness survey asks whether people know how to report suspicious messages, find current guidance and get help with everyday security decisions.

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This employee cybersecurity awareness survey asks whether people know how to report suspicious messages, find current guidance and get help with everyday security decisions.

A completed training module does not tell a security team whether the reporting route is clear. SurveyLegend helps gather practical feedback from employees without asking anyone to paste a suspicious link or reveal a password.

When to use this template

Use this after a named training cycle or policy update. Keep a separate, prominent route for live phishing or account concerns; the survey does not create a security ticket. The workplace technology template reviews tool friction rather than security guidance.

7 employee cybersecurity awareness survey questions

Think about the training and security guidance you received in the past month. Skip what you cannot judge. Do not paste suspicious links, passwords, customer data, email content or incident details here; use your organization's reporting route for active concerns.

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Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Survey

01 Have you received the organization's current cybersecurity guidance?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

02 How clear is the route for reporting a suspicious work email or message?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

03 If you were unsure whether a message was safe, what would you do first?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

04 How easy is it to find current guidance on passwords and sign-in?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

05 How well did the most recent training connect to the messages or tools you actually use?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

06 Which topic needs a clearer example next?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

07 What one instruction or reporting step would you make clearer?

Share your answer, or skip this question.

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Customize your employee cybersecurity awareness survey

Replace generic routes with the actual company reporting and policy names in the introduction; do not include a clickable test phishing link. Keep "I have not received training" and "Not sure" options so nonexposure is not interpreted as failure. Review sensitive questions when deciding what not to collect in free text.

Printable employee cybersecurity awareness survey

The same seven optional questions can be printed after an in-person training session. Give a return route that does not expose individual answers to peers; paper forms need separate review and are not synchronized with online data.

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How to use the answers

Separate employees who received training from those who did not. If the report route is unclear, fix the instructions and test that route through the security team's own process; do not use this voluntary survey as a phishing-performance test. Summarize topic requests in groups and avoid attributing a wrong answer to a named worker.

Ngwese interviewed six IT security managers in Cameroon for a Walden University doctoral study. Its abstract identified themes including “providing persistent end-user and employee training” and cybersecurity policies. That supports checking whether current guidance and training reach employees, while the original questions here are not a validated knowledge test and the case study does not establish incident reduction. Source: Ngwese (2025) .

Frequently asked questions

Can this receive phishing reports?

No. Give employees the organization's actual reporting route for suspicious messages and urgent account issues.

Should the form ask for passwords or screenshots?

No. Keep secrets and live incident material out of the survey and use the established secure process instead.

Does a correct answer prove secure behavior?

No. Responses show what people say they know; combine them with appropriate training review and security operations evidence.