The threat model SoSafe is built around isn't a zero-day or a misconfigured firewall - it's the human sitting in front of the screen. Founded in 2018 by a psychologist, the company is Europe's largest security awareness training and human risk management provider. Its core product is a platform that combines personalized, gamified learning with smart phishing simulations, designed to turn employees from passive attack surfaces into active defenders. The approach is built on behavioral science, not just check-the-box compliance.
The technical stack here blends cybersecurity with social science. Over 30% of the product team comes from psychology or social science backgrounds, which informs everything from simulation design to how risk is measured and presented. The platform runs at scale: 5.4 million users across 32 countries. The engineering challenge is as much about modeling human behavior and designing adaptive learning loops as it is about the phishing simulation infrastructure itself.
With a team of 500+ (called "Safeys") representing 52 nationalities, the organization is structured around its behavioral insights model. The company operates primarily in Europe and sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, gamified learning, and behavioral science - a niche that demands fluency in both threat landscape specifics and human factors research. If your interest is in security products where the primary attack vector is cognitive, this is one of the larger operations working the problem.
