# SEAT Practitioner Guides

> Machine-readable index of the free practitioner guides at https://app.humanrisk.com/guides, part of the SEAT security awareness maturity framework by HumanRisk. Each guide has a markdown mirror for AI assistants.

- [Know Your Environment](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/know-your-environment.md): Before you build your program, you need to know what kind of environment you're operating in. Two questions matter more than anything else: your organizational culture and how your workforce actually works.
- [What Your Vendor Dashboard Doesn't Tell You](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/vendor-dashboard.md): Your vendor's dashboard is designed to show you that their product is working. That's not the same as showing you that your program is working. Learn to measure what actually matters.
- [Your First Real Program Document](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/first-program-document.md): You have a vendor login, not a program. Learn to create a one-page Program Brief that defines scope, stakeholders, and success metrics without drowning in documentation theater.
- [The People Who Can Block Your Program (And How to Make Them Allies)](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/stakeholder-allies.md): Your success depends more on internal relationships than it does on your vendor tool. Learn to build relationships with the people who control your friction points before you need their approval.
- [Mapping Your Value to the Security Team](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/security-team-value.md): You have behavioral data. They have threat intelligence. Neither side is connecting the dots. Learn to build the relationship that turns awareness into a detection layer.
- [Asking for Money When You Can't Prove a Negative](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/budget-conversation.md): Leadership wants ROI. You can't prove attacks that didn't happen. Every budget conversation starts from that impossible position. Here's how to navigate it anyway.
- [Before You Deploy: HRM Governance Checklist](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/hrm-implementation-governance.md): HRM platforms are shipping fast. AI-native risk scoring is the new standard. But who built these algorithms? Who's trained to use them? And what happens when the data boundaries collapse? A practical guide to the conversations you should have before implementation.
- [When Security Tools Start Scoring People](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/hrm-governance-gap-research.md): A new category of security technology is emerging that scores individual employees on risk. The disciplines it draws from -- insider threat, UEBA, user monitoring -- all learned hard lessons about bias, false positives, and accountability. This research guide examines whether HRM platforms are learning from those lessons or repeating them.
- [The Practitioner Education Gap](https://app.humanrisk.com/guides/practitioner-education-gap.md): Analysis of the SANS 2025 Security Awareness Report reveals a consistent pattern: practitioners have the tools but lack the methodology. This research examines what's missing and why it matters for vendors, investors, and the industry.

Source page: https://app.humanrisk.com/guides
More AI-readable resources: https://app.humanrisk.com/llms.txt