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Goglio S.p.A. chooses Cyber Guru’s digital fitness program for its security

Overview

With a history spanning over 175 years, Goglio S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading players in flexible packaging. Founded in 1850, the Group designs, develops, and manufactures complete packaging systems. With a global reach, Goglio operates production facilities in Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, China, and Brazil, and has sales offices located in various European countries and Southeast Asia.

The challenge

For Goglio S.p.A., the challenge was to minimize cyberattacks by investing in continuous training and building a strong security culture. The goal was to protect the integrity of industrial processes and make people the first line of defense, because innovation in the manufacturing sector also depends on digital protection and human capital development.

The solution

The choice of the Cyber Guru platform delivered measurable benefits: a dramatic decrease in interaction rates with suspicious emails during simulations; a significant increase in employee proactivity in reporting anomalies to the IT department; the spread of a security culture beyond the workplace, also protecting people’s private digital lives and those of their families.

To strengthen reflexes against cyber threats

The solutions offered by Goglio S.p.A. are applied globally across multiple industrial sectors: coffee, food, chemicals, cosmetics, detergents, liquids, beverages, and pet food.

In such a context, accompanied by increasing digitalization of production and logistics processes, protecting technological know-how and operational continuity has become a priority for the Group.

Speaking to us is Paolo Carabelli, ICT Infrastructure & Digital Transformation Manager, after the company decided in May 2025 to undertake the corporate training path with Cyber Guru, involving 410 employees in Italy and Europe.

“The main challenge,” says Carabelli, “was to move beyond the view of cyber security as a purely technical issue, addressing instead the human factor variable through a path that was not perceived as monitoring, but as a growth of risk culture.” Cyber security is not a product, but a process—this is the guiding principle adopted by Goglio, in line with the vision that Cyber Guru has always embraced.

“A principle that translates into the fact,” says Carabelli, “that people (the so-called human factor), often referred to as the weakest link in the chain, must instead be considered the strong and essential link in the cyber security management process. The strategic goal is to transform every employee from a potential target into an active sentinel, equipped with the knowledge and tools to neutralize risks at their source.”

Cyber Guru as a strategic partner

“Initially, cybersecurity training was organized through awareness webinars,” the manager explains. An approach that, while valid, was time-consuming, as it fell outside the company’s core business.

After having the opportunity to learn about Cyber Guru on various occasions and evaluate its features and potential, the choice was clear: an easy-to-adopt tool, implemented independently in just a few hours, without any particular technical difficulties. “I wouldn’t call it a computer course, but a digital fitness program that strengthens your ‘muscles’ and sharpens your reflexes against the threats that each of us can encounter every day, both at work and in our private lives.”

The Group has implemented a participatory security framework based on two fundamental pillars:

Recurring and dynamic training: a program of constant updates on cybercrime evolution, aimed at creating widespread responsibility among all employees with the goal of maintaining high awareness through continuous training—if training is delivered once a year, it is not effective.
Adaptive phishing simulations: use of periodic practical tests to train staff responsiveness. The chosen approach is experiential: mistakes made during the test become immediate learning moments, increasing discernment in daily activities…

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