Stories help understand
Awareness Short Stories
Get people interested in IT security and data protection, preferably before there is an incident in the house.
Clicking through documents and tests is boring and nothing sticks. In the employees' perception, such training courses often only steal their time. And it is also "completely unnecessary". I know. "It just has to be that way." ... But ... Does it?
Spannende Geschichten, in denen alles schiefläuft, was schieflaufen kann, erreichen uns auf einer ganz anderen Ebene als trockene Security- oder Datenschutz-Schulungen. Ganz menschlich und an konkreten Beispielen begreifen wir mögliche Gefahren und die Auswirkungen, auch auf die einzelnen Beteiligten.
Pure facts are abstract and far away from us, but stories are concrete and thus easily understood. That's why they can significantly increase the interest of employees. The stories are also technically correct and comprehensible, so they provide the ideal basis for further trainings. Supplementary information and, for example, expert discussions at your company a few days after you provide each story to your empoyees, round things off: What is the criminal case in the story and how did it happen? How could it happen in our company ? If at all? After all, what measures do we have in place to prevent something like this from happening?
Awareness stories are no substitute for a decent security training, but they do increase your employees' willingness to deal with security and data protection issues.
Together with a fellow author, I have been writing awareness short stories for an Austrian corporation since February 2021. During this time, the in-house measures on IT security issues have been linked to entertaining stories, they have been more popular with employees. The feedback is consistently positive.
I look forward to contributing to more awareness and thus to more security at your business with exciting stories in the near future.
You have these options
Story as a Service
Story Subscription
With the Story Subscription, there is no customization for your company. So you don't have to worry about anything, prepare briefings or adapt your internal training. Every month, a story on a current topic in IT security or data protection simply arrives in your mailbox as an ebook for your employees. All you have to do is forward it to your employees or upload it to your intranet.
Most important
- One story on a current topic every month, delivered directly into your inbox, incl. a link to a news site about the case on which the story is based
- Length of the story: variable, maximum 15 pages
- Delivery as ebook (epub, Kindle & PDF)
Price
depending on the number of employees in your company
from EUR 150,- per story
EUR 1.800 per year (plus VAT)
yearly payment
Limited Introductory Offer
First story free!
If commissioned by 31.12.2022.
? 1.800 EUR 1.650 per year (plus VAT)
Adapted for you
Ready-Made
Existing stories written by me will be adapted slightly, e. g. so the culprit does not accidentally bear the name of your CEO. Finished stories are currently available in the genre of crime fiction. Science fiction is also possible, feel free to write me an email.
Most important
- Minor adaptations of an already existing story according to your briefing (change of names of acting persons etc.)
- Lead time: 1 to 2 weeks
- Story length: 12 to 20 standard pages
- Delivery as ebook (epub, Kindle & PDF) and PDF print template (A5)
- Optional: audio book (plus EUR 300,-)
Price
from EUR 500,- (plus VAT)
per story
Tailor-made
Full-Custom
The stories are completely customized, i.e. written from scratch. In this case, after your briefing (and of course an NDA), existing systems are incorporated (e.g. cash register system in the cloud, password manager available or not, production system with or without connection to the Internet, etc.), so that the story could really take place directly in your company.
Most important
- Freshly written story for your company, according to your briefing
- Incl. one full revision loop
- Lead time: 4 to 6 weeks
- Story length: 12 to 20 standard pages
- Delivery as ebook (epub, Kindle & PDF) and PDF print template (A5)
- Optional: audio book (plus EUR 300,-)
Price
from EUR 900,- (plus VAT)
per story
Wait, why would we hire Klaudia?
Because I have a lot of experience in writing, in making complex topics understandable, and a background in data protection and IT security. And because I love bringing all these different fields together.
My resume is my qualification. From 1998 to 2005 I studied philosophy and English language and literature. Master's degree. I took all the Creative Writing semminars I could get. At the University of Hanover, master students were taught together with teacher training students, so I got a complete pedagogy degree on top. In addition, I did a voluntary internship at a school. Then I got stuck in adult education. I taught English for several years and completed a trainer training and refreshed my trainer's license here in Austria a few years ago.
During my studies, I lived in a dorm exclusively with computer scientists for a few semesters. The almost weekly pop-up "Would you like a coffee?" meant that there was once again someone to help with a hardware problem. In the process I learned a lot about hardware, but also about software and subsequently web development, and from then on I not only wrote texts but also built small websites. Early two thousands, mind you. My interest in text and technology always ran parallel since then and I did alternating jobs with writing or with technology: community archive – internet service provider – law firm library – copywriter at a social media agency – trainee at a large daily newspaper – PR agency with clients like EA and Apple Austria – project manager for web development at a large agency, then at a small one – publication of my first crime novels – Copywriter for an agency in a project for Google – started to advocate for privacy and get involved in the CCC – organized the annual PrivacyWeek – project manager at a small internet service provider, then at a large one – training as a data protection officer – examination to become a privacy expert – supervision of technical projects at NOYB, then data protection agency – self-employed with writing and data protection. Et voilá.
Contents
Over the years, I have built up a large network and if I don't know something, I always know who to ask. The contents of all stories, including those within the story subscription, are discussed with IT security experts and/or data protection lawyers and checked for plausibility. I usually simplify technically complex issues to increase acceptance among readers.
Workflow for the Story Subscription
- You hire me and tell me the mail address of your IT security or data protection officer.
- I will enter this address in the distribution list.
- Upon receipt of the payment, you will receive the finished ebook files for your in-house communication at the beginning of each month.
Workflow for Ready-Made & Full-Custom Stories
- After commissioning, we get started.
- Ihr erteilt mir ein Briefing. Das findet in der Regel online in einem Videokonferenzraum statt. Entweder über Eure eigene Softwarelösung oder meinen BigBlueButton-Server.
- Your briefing covers the topics you are currently training internally and what aspects, if any, are taboo in your company culture.
- Um auf Eure individuellen Systeme und firmenspezifischen Details eingehen zu können, unterschreibe ich gern eine Verschwiegenheitserklärung von Euch.
- After the briefing, I will create a suitable story for you and send you a preliminary version for review.
- Then you have one week to send me feedback on whether the story fits. If there are delays on your side for whatever reason, the story project will be delayed accordingly. If there are delays on my side, I will of course contact you immediately.
- With full-custom stories, there is a full revision loop where any company cultural specifics are reworked. In the past, there have been cases where customers have noticed during the review process that a certain topic that played into the motif of the crime story was a problem for communication. Of course, I take this into account during the revision process.
- Should you also want an audio book for your story, I will need about a week additional turnaround time for that.
- You will receive the finished files for your in-house communication.
Formats
ebook (epub, Kindle, PDF)
For each story you will receive the ebook formats for your internal communication, e.g. for distribution via your intranet. With the ebook files your employees can feed their possibly existing reading devices or read the PDF on the company computer.
Print PDF
Printed booklets of the stories have proven very successful; displayed in the canteen or in meeting rooms. This way, employees can "snack" on the stories during their lunch break, and the contents become subject of discussions during the break.
Audio book
Audiobooks are well received by many employees, not just those in the field, people with low vision or other impairments, and non-native speakers. Many also simply love the format. Audiobooks are an ideal companion on the way to work or home.
Da ich eine Sprecherausbildung habe, spreche ich Eure Stories gern ein und versehe sie auf Wunsch auch mit Eurem Soundlogo oder Intro/Outro.
You receive the audio books as ready-mastered MP3 files and can then make them available to your employees together with the eBooks, e.g. on the intranet.
Legal
Licenses
When you buy awareness stories from me, you are not buying the story, but the license to use it for your internal communication. You do not have the right to publish the stories on your website, in your customer newsletter or by any other means or to disclose them to a semi-public. The rights to publish a story remain with me. A total buy-out is not provided, even for full-custom stories. If you need this, please contact me and we'll find a solution.
In case I publish stories after the end of your usage time, I will of course anonymize them, i.e. take out specific product or software names (exception would be solutions available to the public like certain messengers or online searches, etc.).
Duration of use
We agree on the duration of use before the contract comes into effect. For example, "for one year from purchase" or "until the end of the internal training campaign".