Phishing and verification
Test the pause before the click.
Use email, chat, QR-code, and payment scenarios. Ask what to inspect and how to verify an unusual request.
- Unexpected links
- Domain differences
- Independent verification
Free security awareness survey builder
Free AI Security Awareness Survey Generator
Describe your workforce and priority risks. Makeform turns the brief into a practical security awareness survey with scenario questions, role context, and follow-up prompts.
- Unlimited free forms and responses
- Editable before sharing
- Scenario-based knowledge checks
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, tailor it to your policies, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Prompt ready4 formats
Audience
Employees across departments and seniority levels
Format
Ten-question scenario survey with topic tags
Prompt size
302 chars
Brief qualitySends to builder
Example survey structure
Ten-question scenario survey with topic tags
Prompt exampleEditable in builder
A supplier sends a new sign-in link. What do you do first?
Multiple choiceFirst ask
2
How should you handle an unexpected approval prompt?
Multiple choice
3
How do you report a suspected incident?
Multiple choice
4
Your department
Dropdown
5
Topics needing more guidance
Checkboxes
Suggested routing tags
Strong awareness
Review recommended
Training follow-up
Use believable workplace situations. Scenarios reveal whether someone recognizes the safe action when details compete for attention.
Step 1
Define
audience, risks, policies, and reporting path
Step 2
Test
short scenarios that require a safe decision
Step 3
Review
topic patterns, confidence, and missed concepts
Step 4
Respond
targeted guidance and a later follow-up survey
Measure practical judgment
Find the decisions your training has not changed yet.
Completion records show attendance. A security awareness survey shows how employees respond to suspicious messages, lost devices, and unexpected access requests.
Scenarios tied to real work
Frame questions around decisions employees face, with enough context to choose the next action.
Results grouped by topic
Tag questions by phishing, passwords, data, devices, or reporting to identify weak subjects.
Relevant paths by role
Show specialized questions for finance, managers, remote staff, or administrators after a common baseline.
Survey design choices
Ask questions employees can answer without exposing risk.
Assess judgment without inviting passwords, confidential records, incident details, or sensitive screenshots.
Branch by responsibility
Route managers, finance staff, and IT to relevant scenarios after a shared core.
One best action per scenario
Use plausible choices and make the preferred action specific.
Add confidence carefully
Pair answers with confidence to distinguish uncertainty from misconceptions.
Keep sensitive data out
Tell respondents not to enter passwords, recovery codes, confidential data, or incident evidence.
Build the survey
From risk priorities to an actionable awareness baseline.
Start with required decisions, then structure results to reveal training priorities without collecting unnecessary data.
01
Describe roles, risks, and policies
Tell the builder who will respond, which threats matter, what employees have already learned, and the exact internal reporting route that answer explanations should reference.
02
Review every scenario and answer
Replace generic policy assumptions with your own guidance. Check that one option is clearly preferred, distractors remain believable, and no question asks for sensitive information.
03
Add routing and topic labels
Show role-specific sections only when relevant, then label each question by subject so exported responses can support a phishing, password, device, or reporting breakdown.
04
Share, analyze, and repeat
Distribute the survey, review patterns by topic and role, offer focused guidance, and use a later version with fresh scenarios to see where understanding has changed.
Choose the right measurement
Awareness survey, training feedback, or simulated exercise?
These activities answer different questions. Use the security awareness survey for knowledge and judgment, and interpret its findings alongside behavior and training feedback rather than treating one score as a complete risk measure.
Approach
What it measures
Best use
ApproachTraining feedback form
What it measuresWhether participants found a session clear, relevant, and usable.
Best useImproving the delivery and examples in a training program.
ApproachSimulated security exercise
What it measuresHow people behave during a controlled test under defined conditions.
Best usePracticing a response process with careful authorization and oversight.
Approach
Security awareness survey
What it measuresHow employees choose among actions in consistent knowledge scenarios.
Best useFinding topic gaps, confidence patterns, and priorities for focused education.
Field guide
What a useful security awareness survey should cover.
Use these six sections to balance core knowledge, workplace decisions, response confidence, and training needs. Edit every recommended action to match your organization before sharing.
Authentication
Cover passwords and prompts.
Test password reuse, recovery information, and unexpected multifactor prompts without asking for real credentials.
- Unique passwords
- Unexpected approvals
- Private recovery codes
Data handling
Follow information safely.
Present choices about sharing, storage, printing, and disposal. Keep examples fictional so no confidential data is copied.
- Approved destinations
- Permission checks
- Secure disposal
Devices and workplaces
Cover every workplace.
Ask about lost devices, screens, updates, removable media, public networks, and visitors. Tailor the mix to employee work patterns.
- Lost-device response
- Physical access
- Public-location choices
Incident reporting
Clarify the first response.
Test what warrants a report and which internal channel to use. Put your real process in the reviewed guidance.
- Reportable events
- Approved channel
- Actions after mistakes
Context and follow-up
Collect useful context.
Role, confidence, and requested topics can guide education. Explain how results will be used and avoid identifying small groups.
- Broad role
- Answer confidence
- Training requests
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Open toolFAQ
Security awareness survey questions
Practical answers for security and IT managers planning an employee knowledge check.
What is a security awareness survey?
It gauges how employees understand and apply safe practices. Useful versions present workplace scenarios about phishing, authentication, data, devices, access, and reporting instead of testing vocabulary alone.
What questions should a security awareness survey include?
Cover suspicious messages, multifactor prompts, password reuse, file sharing, lost devices, visitors, remote work, and incident reporting. Adapt preferred answers to your policies and roles.
Should the survey collect employee names?
Collect names only when individual follow-up is necessary. A broad role may be enough. Explain how results will be used and avoid small-group reports that identify respondents.
Can I score the survey?
Define preferred answers and ask for scoring or topic labels, then review the logic. Topic patterns and confidence can be more actionable than one overall score.
How often should employees complete an awareness survey?
Run it when results support a decision, such as before training or after time to apply it. Use fresh scenarios in follow-ups while measuring the same topics.
Is this security awareness survey generator free?
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, share, and repeat the survey without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Can I create different questions for different departments?
Yes. Use conditional paths for finance, people teams, managers, or IT after a broad role question. Keep some core questions common for a shared baseline.
What should I do with the results?
Review missed topics and confidence patterns by broad role. Turn clear gaps into focused guidance, reinforce the reporting path, and later check the same topics with new scenarios.
Turn awareness into a measurable baseline.
Generate a security awareness survey built around your workforce and risks.
Unlimited free forms and responsesEditable scenarios and answer choicesRole and topic-based structure