You're already using TryHackMe, so you'll know the fun and benefits of honing your hacking skills through engaging challenges and labs. Imagine having the power to supercharge your learning experience and unlock an even greater arsenal of tools and resources. This is precisely what the TryHackMe Business plan offers - not to mention getting your manager to pay for your subscription!
The TryHackMe business plan provides bundles of exclusive content right at your fingertips, with unlimited access to 1000+ labs and challenges, fully customisable labs/paths, our brand-new SOC Simulator, Threat Hunting Simulator, and even the option to learn AWS & Azure security!
To access these fantastic features and even get your business to pay for your TryHackMe subscription, the first step is getting approval from your boss to launch TryHackMe Business! Not only will this show your forward-thinking, but also be a fantastic way to extend your responsibilities and be the first to launch an innovation.
It can be difficult to navigate pitching something new to management, so we’ve constructed a guide to help you build a case to get TryHackMe into your workspace.
Step 1 - Understand their pain points
The most important consideration to managers’ signing off new costs are the benefits - which must be impactful enough to justify the expense.
It’s best to frame your suggestion to meet the business goals and management needs. Pay attention to the goals and current pain points within training. What are the current problems with staff training? Is your company investing in other platforms here? Why will TryHackMe pose a benefit?
Whilst pain points are variable across companies, common issues we hear from users are:
- Time-consuming training - TryHackMe training is available via your browser with easy-to-understand, engaging learning. Managers can oversee team progress and employee understanding in one dashboard.
- Slow responses to new threats and mitigations - With the cyber security industry posing regular new threats, TryHackMe creates reactive threat mitigation content in a matter of days, so the workforce can swiftly learn the topic.
- Management logistics - While managing the education progress across teams can entail time-consuming data management, the TryHackMe management feature allows managers to see all learners in one place, logging progress and swiftly seeing areas where employees need to invest more time/support.
- Training can be boring and difficult to understand. TryHackMe was developed to introduce gamified, fun tools to learn cyber security - with game-based learning and easy-to-follow guides. Our platform is suited for the complete beginner through to the seasoned hacker, going through multiple layers of quality assurance to meet excellent standards across content.
- Lack of skillset within teams to identify, detect and respond to incidents. With attackers getting better and faster every day, it's important for teams to not only understand how attackers work, but keep their skills fresh so they know how to identify, detect and respond to these threats. With TryHackMe's SOC L1, SOC L2 and Incident response learning paths, we provide SOC teams with everything they need to identify and respond to complex incidents.
Step 2 - Discuss the logic behind your reasoning
Explaining the logic behind your thinking is key, using examples management can relate to. Think about the current platforms your company uses to train - what is the rough cost? Are employees trained in-house? How much time is invested here?
Many companies run in-person training sessions, which can be time-consuming and assumes all employees learn at the same rate, which we know isn’t accurate. With larger teams, tracking employee progress and paying attention to areas of confusion can become disjointed.
This angle is a key selling point, as with TryHackMe, employees can learn at their own pace, whilst managers can easily track development. This would save the company time, in managers constructing training sessions and employees having to learn at the rate of others, equating to money spent on this time. Another upside is that no employee gets left behind, as they can train with further rooms and go over any areas needing improvement.
Pay attention to business goals, such as investing in cyber security to avoid costly data breaches, increasing employee retention and morale, and building a secure, team-based cyber training culture that’s easy for management to track.
Ask yourself:
- Are your company’s current training methods more expensive than TryHackMe?
- Do you and your team enjoy completing the training available?
- Do you and your team regularly make mistakes that could easily be avoided with more real-world training?
Step 3 - Clarify the benefits of TryHackMe
After addressing all the pain points about the current situation, explain more about why TryHackMe is so much better.
- Learning is fun - TryHackMe has been designed to engage the user and have them genuinely enjoy the learning process, with gamified interactive learning.
- Diverse content - We offer offensive and defensive training material for all skill levels. We release new rooms and learning paths regularly, which enables continuous development.
- Real-world training - Our team is made up of SOC analysts, incident responders and red teamers that create training based on what they've seen. We also created simulated environments (SOC Simulator, Threat Hunting Simulator to replicate true experiences in SOC environments).
- Track team learning progress - Our business package includes access to the management dashboard, where team leaders can swiftly assess the team’s training and performance.
- Adaptable - All of our training rooms are adaptable, so management can take existing labs on TryHackMe, make changes, add company branding and align them to team-specific goals.
- Affordable - We’re the most affordable training platform out there, providing businesses with cost-effective training that works for all.
Step 4 - Talk about the costs
Naturally, decision-makers will want to uncover what they will get out of the platform, and ensure that the benefits outweigh the cost. This is important to remember when putting your case forward!
Premium subscriptions allow for unlimited access to over 1000 browser-based virtual labs, including our latest Red Team Capstone Challenge Network, and enable management to create custom learning paths to directly relate learning materials to the company. You’ll have access to hundreds of fantastic training rooms at your fingertips, covering all aspects of cyber security, with the option of business-exclusive add-ons.
Our sales team can provide an overview of what a TryHackMe plan would look like for your company!
Use our pitch statement template!
To make it simple for you to gain manager approval, here's an email you can edit for pitching:
Dear [manager name],
[I've been using/I came across] TryHackMe, a great platform that I wanted to bring to your attention.
TryHackMe offers a business plan that provides engaging, real-world, and exclusive content, including real world simulators for triage and threat hunting. They also provide AWS & Azure sandboxes to replicate attacks against cloud environments and learn how to defend against these attacks.
By investing in TryHackMe’s cyber security training, we can achieve [outcome], overcoming [problem/pain point].
Examples of this are:
- By investing in TryHackMe cyber security training, we can ensure the team sees continuous development on emerging tools and threats, overcoming the problem of disjointed training plans that often leave teams to their own devices.
- By investing in TryHackMe cyber security training, we can ensure our teams - are upskilled to a level that allows for efficiency and safety, mitigating risk. This will allow our team to identify, detect and respond to attacks faster with the right skillset.
You can find out more about the TryHackMe Business plan here.
Hopefully, this is of interest to you!
Kind regards,
[Your name]
We have also created a PDF to send to your manager, detailing the benefits of investing in TryHackMe.
Pay attention to the benefit your boss will gain. The level of protection, mitigation of risk, employee retention, and overall company standing will be the selling points here. This is important to remember when pitching your case.
Final thoughts
Your boss will likely come back to you with some questions when proposing new ideas. At the bottom line, you are proactively suggesting ways to overcome current paint points and highlighting the company's advantages with your proposal, making you look good and giving you the opportunity to get a premium subscription on company dime.
The TryHackMe Blog is home to many resources to support your case:
- Why cyber security needs to be a priority for your business
- How to build a cyber culture in your workforce
- Cyber Security - the cost of human error
- Why businesses are investing in cyber security teams
- Collaborative hacking for your team’s development
- Challenge Your Team With the Red Team Capstone Challenge Network!
- AWS Cloud Security Training for your team
Access the TryHackMe business enquiry page here, or email [email protected] to get the ball rolling.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Ben Spring