Know your culture.
Strengthen your resilience.
Strengthen your resilience.
We're building a tool that helps SMEs assess their cybersecurity culture, benchmark themselves against peers, and identify measures to enhance organizational resilience.
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CURRENT PHASE — Q1 2026
We're looking for SME decision-makers to interview.
If you lead an SME and care about cybersecurity culture in your organization, we'd love a 45-minute conversation. Your input directly shapes the CADA framework.
THE PROJECT
Developing a targeted cybersecurity culture & awareness assessment tool.
CADA is a new Innosuisse-funded initiative rooted in interdisciplinary research. By analyzing the cultural and habit-anchoring factors within companies, we ensure that awareness-promoting measures are effective and make a meaningful contribution to organizational security.
HOW WE BUILD THE FRAMEWORK
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Assess existing work
Structured review of academic papers, established theories, and prior frameworks on security culture and organizational resilience.
2
Merge to clusters
Synthesis of collected inputs into thematic clusters that capture key influences and recurring patterns across sources.
3
Contextualise
Refining cluster structure, defining intended purposes, and embedding them within practical organizational contexts.
ROADMAP 2026–2028
WE ARE HERE
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Q1 2026
Validation of CADA Framework
Validation of CADA Framework
Milestone 1: CADA Framework for SMEs
M1
Q4 2026
Milestone 2: Theoretical development
M2
Q2 2027
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Q3 2027
CADA prototype
CADA prototype
Milestone 3: Implementation
M3
Q1 2028
ADVISORY BOARD
Nine experts from industry, academia, and the public sector guide the CADA project.
Dr. Jörn Basel
HSLU
Marcus Beyer
Swisscom
Monika Geitlinger
SRG
Eveline Hutter
Würth
Melanie Knieps
CYREN
Stefan Lehmann
VTG
Prof. Michael Mäder
HES-SO
Fabian Muhly
Leo & Muhly
Thomas Schlienger
Tree Solutions
THE TEAM
Verena Zimmermann
Lead Scientist
Ayşe Nur Asyali
Lead Research
Katja Dörlemann
Lead Partner
Milena Thalmann
Expert Partner
Florian Muff
Expert Partner
Supported by Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency
Swiss Accelerator innovation project · 115.489 IP-ICT
Help shape Swiss cybersecurity culture research.
We're interviewing SME decision-makers across Switzerland to ground the CADA framework in real organizational reality. Participation takes 45 minutes and has direct impact.
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