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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. TRANSFORMED.
3t Transform
Part of 3t Energy Group’s portfolio of companies, including leading training providers AIS Training and Survivex and simulator provider, Drilling Systems, 3t Transform offers a gamechanging platform of cloud-based training management software and blended learning technologies; enabling companies world-wide to deliver, manage and monitor the training and competence of their staff and contractors.
The 3t Transform team is made up of industry experts in customer experience, technology, design, and content creation. With this knowhow, we create the ultimate, cost-effective learning solutions that can be tailored to your needs, helping you work smarter, safer and more efficiently.
At the core of the 3t Transform platform is a range of connected cloud-based software tools, designed to manage the safety, training compliance, learning, skills gaps, and competence of your workforce. Coupled with our pioneering, cost effective, learning technologies that improve workers’ knowledge, skills, and performance, our platform enables your workers to constantly improve through self-initiated learning, which can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
“We offer a complete solution for workforce development and training, ensuring our customers are at the heart of every solution we provide. We have taken a consultive approach, listening to your biggest challenges, and built technology-driven solutions that create safer, smarter workers and increase your operational efficiency.” Paul
Stonebanks OBE, President
Training and Competence Management Software
Our platform of Management Software is packed full of powerful features that enable the timely delivery of your workforce training, all from the convenience of one central, cloud-based platform. Our software includes state-of-the-art Training Management, Learning Management and Competence Management Systems, where you can simply and effectively manage and improve the training, compliance, safety and competence of your entire workforce.
Blended Learning Technologies
E-Learn: We have thousands of off-the-shelf, industry-accredited E-Learning courses available at 3t Transform, accessible on demand, 24/7, on mobile, desktop or tablet. Each course is SCORM compliant and includes a mix of theory and assessments to enhance engagement.
“We are specialists in creating bespoke content, tailored to your exact needs, and have a proven track record of designing and delivering engaging learning content that improves knowledge retention.” Linsey Horberry, Head of
Learning and Development
Micro-learning app - R3: Our ground-breaking R3 platform is based on the principles of spaced repetition learning and delivers micro-learning quizzes tailored to each worker.
E-Learn: We have thousands of off-theshelf, industry-accredited E-Learning courses available at 3t Transform, accessible on demand, 24/7, on mobile, desktop or tablet. Each course is SCORM compliant and includes a mix of theory and assessments to enhance engagement.
“We are specialists in creating bespoke content, tailored to your exact needs, and have a proven track record of designing and delivering engaging learning content that improves knowledge retention.” Linsey Horberry, Head of Learning and Development
Micro-learning app - R3: Our ground-breaking R3 platform is based on the principles of spaced repetition learning and delivers micro-learning quizzes tailored to each worker.
Designed to repeatedly test on-the-job skills and knowledge, this helps to reduce future training costs, increase learner engagement through gamification and improve knowledge retention. R3 also offers powerful reporting capabilities, providing detailed feedback about each learner.
R3 has already been used by high profile companies like McDonalds and TUI, to name a few.
Virtual-reality training and digital twin creation: Our virtual reality platform has transformed both training and learning in the workplace. We specialise in creating realistic, immersive learning environments which replicate realworld scenarios and procedures allowing your workers to test their skills and knowledge in a safe setting.
Using our powerful digital twin technology, we can recreate customers’ assets and sites in exact detail in the virtual world.
This training is unrivalled for engagement and memory retention, “VR can deliver a 75% increase in delegates’ learning retention when compared with standard methods.”
Video-Learn: Reducing contact time and safeguarding the health of employees during COVID-19 has been vital. Cloud-based learning has proven critical in continuing training and learning during this time, and in an everchanging world, businesses will increasingly rely on distance learning in the future.
Video is a great tool for breaking down complex information into bite-sized, simple, easy to understand visuals. Content-rich and engaging video-based learning allows standardised training to be delivered across multiple personnel easily and quickly. Theory backed up by practical demonstrations builds knowledge and pause and replay modules mean delegates can learn at their own pace. 3t Transform also provides multilingual versions for global teams, all accessed via our Learning Management System.
Augmented Reality: 3t Transform’s AR platform allows you to bring to life digital interactive scenarios or workplace processes in your realworld environment. You then use the AR mobile app to interact with the ‘digital’ scene that can take your learning to a new level of interaction and engagement.
Simulators: We also offer a range of advanced portable simulators, tailored to the oil & gas industry, that allow your workers to test and retest their skills in safety, maximising human performance, competence, and efficiency. All our simulators connect with the other learning technologies and software for a truly blended learning experience.
“3t Transform is truly transforming training with technology. There is no other business able to provide a holistic technology training solution, vastly decreasing the time taken to demonstrate a compliant and competent workforce while drastically reducing training and associated costs. All the while delivering a proven and robust system that can be accessed anywhere globally with full offline capabilities.” Sally Finnie, VP
Functions and Benefits
• Cost effective – all your learning and software tools in one place reducing admin time and logistics.
• Mobilise your workers with tailored induction training plans to get them job-ready and safe.
• Quick access to 6 ways to learn with 100’s of tech-driven courses.
• Full real-time visibility of the safety, compliance, and competence of your regional and global operations, giving you 100% compliance assurance.
• Rapid onboarding onto the platform to make it easy to get started.
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Jonathan Smith is a Cyber Resilience Technical Lead who has been in the industry for 11+ years. His role at Sword Ping Network Solutions involves working with our customers to help them design network and security solutions to secure and connect with their data.

Craig Neilson is a Sales Lead for Sword. Craig joined Sword 5 years ago and as Sales Lead is responsible for managing relationships with customers to align their requirements with Sword Ping’s offerings.

Being cyber resilient to protect your data
Changing landscape
The reality now for our industry is that it is no longer if you may have a security breach but when. With an ever-changing threat landscape, it is more important than ever before to protect your data and have suitable plans in place to recover efficiently.
With the rapid pace of change in technologies and growing challenges, many organisations are striving to find the balance between simplifying technology and designing technology solutions. . As an industry continuing to face different pressures in an already complex and diverse landscape, we must continue to evolve our environment to maximise the benefits of secure digital and data-driven solutions.
The importance of cyber resilience
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) specifies the definition of Cyber Resilience as “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.” Due to the breadth of diverse data sources, high data velocity and greater data veracity, we, as industry must stay on top of utilising cyber resources and solutions to be prepared for the increasing potential of cyber-attacks.
Driving Cyber Resilience
At Sword we utilise recognised cyber security frameworks and fit-for-purpose security solutions to assist our customers in their cyber resilience planning such as cyber risk awareness and planning, attack surface awareness, lifecycle management and cloud security.
Without appropriate cyber-resilient solutions and recovery plans organisations will face extended downtime at increasingly high costs.
Organisations today must look at what type of data they hold, whether its internal business, customer data or business critical data. Data today provides significant opportunities to run your business but also exposes organisations to many risks should that data be compromised or breached. What loss would you experience from downtime or GDPR implications? What reputational damage may impact ongoing or future business? These implications are only touching the surface of what needs to be considered on a continuous basis.
Mitigating risks to data
As part of mitigating risk it is advised to start with understanding and identifying risks to your organisation. Going through a risk assessment, treatment and prioritisation plan allows organisation leaders to make decisions based on the probability and impact they may have.
Understanding your attack surface and how many access points to your business exist, allows for the beginnings of a cyber resilience plan to be created. It has long been the focus for many organisations to concentrate on virtual data perimeter security utilising firewalls to create boundaries between data and external threats.
With the constant threat and risks to organisations, there must be a constant focus on security practices, threat playbooks and Immutable backups & recovery. Additionally, it is vital that organisations ensure employees are up to date with the latest end-user security training available to them.
The future of cyber resilience
Over the past three years, the energy industry has been rapidly progressing with digital transformations whilst continuing the road to net zero and maximising operational efficiency. With this transformation additional challenges arise with digital adoption and ensuring staff are up to date with training. Sword work with customers to provide an array of security solutions to ensure organisations can continue achieving business outcomes without the burden of potential cyber threats and the damage that will inevitability be caused by these threats.
Being cyber resilient to be data driven
If we, as an industry, are to achieve data driven outcomes, we need to ensure that data is placed at the heart of our operational and project thinking. The only way we do this is by ensuring our data sits in a reliable and secure environment and is protected with sustainable security plans to maintain a high level of cyber resilience.
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About Sword As the North Sea's largest provider of data and digital services, Sword focuses on solving the industry's most critical business technology challenges by enabling our clients to capture, manage and utilise data to make informed decisions. This is supported by people engagement and technology adoption, together with modern ways of working to give confidence that the right discission is made every time.
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