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NSW Department of Customer Service

Eleven ways to connect.

Eleven agencies. Eleven different ways in. Built to get people acting, not just aware.

Sector
The NSW Department of Customer Service - a department spanning multiple agencies and business units, each with its own people, culture and ways of working
What we did
Audience engagement strategy and action measurement, delivered as the LAND program
The brief
Get people engaging with cybersecurity - and taking real action, not just ticking a box
The situation

Eleven agencies. Eleven different cultures to reach.

One department, eleven agencies and business units - each with its own culture, its own people, and its own way of taking in a message.

Sam Mackay, the department's CISO, wanted a program that would change what people actually did, not just what they knew, and he needed evidence it was working.

What was missing

A way into each agency, and proof it landed.

Reaching eleven very different agencies and business units, without flattening them into one generic campaign. The right messengers inside each one - the people staff already trusted, and a measurement approach that could stand up to government reporting, tracking behaviour rather than awareness.

What we did

We didn't build one campaign. We built eleven.

The conviction was Sam's: cybersecurity behaviour does not change because someone sends an email. It changes when the right message reaches the right person, through the right channel, from someone they already trust. He could see that one uniform approach, pushed out the same way to everyone, wasn't landing across a department as varied as his.

So we worked with him to build it differently: a single campaign could not reach all of them, so we did not build one. Each part of the department got its own engagement playbook, built around its specific people, its internal influencers, and the channels its teams already used. Not eleven versions of the same document - eleven genuinely different approaches, each grounded in the make-up of that part of the department.

The measurement framework was built to the same standard the department applies to any government program. Not awareness metrics. Behaviour, tracked and reported.

Together, this became LAND - the department's cybersecurity engagement program.

The outcome

Eleven parts of the department, each reached in its own way.

Eleven agencies and business units, each reached through the people its staff already trusted - the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) inside each one, equipped to craft messages that would actually land. The program was built to get staff acting, not just aware, and one the department's own leaders could run themselves after handover.

11agencies and business units engaged
11tailored engagement playbooks
Behaviourtracked and reported, not just awareness
The LAND program

Not a set of playbooks - a program that keeps working.

The eleven playbooks and the measurement framework live inside LAND - a working program the department reviews, updates and actions on an ongoing basis, part by part. Not a document that lands once and gathers dust.

01EngageReach each part of the department through its BISO, the security leader its people already trust.
02MeasureTrack real behaviour and action - not awareness.
03LearnSee what is landing where, and what is not.
04Update & actRefine the playbooks and run the next cycle.
Reviewed, updated and actioned on an ongoing basis