King of Cybersecurity pairs practical guidance with medieval humour: a phishing email faces criminal charges, while six passwords are judged by a horse.
“Nobody has ever finished a security awareness module and felt anything. Being right is not the same as being remembered, so I wrapped the right answers in a kingdom that gets everything wrong.” — Shakel Ahmed, creator of King of Cybersecurity
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Cybersecurity solutions engineer Shakel Ahmed3 has published a free collection of security awareness materials through King of Cybersecurity1, the satirical website he founded, ahead of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October.
The site presents security advice through a fictional medieval court that consistently gets security wrong. The collection is published as The Royal Armoury2, and includes three printable posters, eleven illustrated memes and a presentation deck with speaker notes, all free to use without registration.
A mock wanted notice charges a phishing email with four offences, and sets against each one what a reader should actually do: treat urgency as a technique and slow down, check the address behind a display name, preview a link before opening it, and treat any request for gift cards as fraudulent. It carries the UK reporting routes, report@phishing.gov.uk for email and 7726 for text messages.
A second poster ranks six passwords, rejecting seasonal patterns and character substitutions, and approving a four-word passphrase and a sixteen-character string from a password manager. A third covers multi-factor authentication. The guidance matches National Cyber Security Centre advice.
“Nobody has ever finished a security awareness module and felt anything,” said Ahmed. “Being right is not the same as being remembered, so I wrapped the right answers in a kingdom that gets everything wrong.”
“The jokes and the security are held to different standards,” he added. “The court is allowed to be wrong in ways nobody could mistake for advice. The advice itself gets checked.”
The site also publishes illustrated satire on phishing simulations, untested backups, artificial intelligence and password policy. Its recurring characters include a horse appointed as Chief Information Security Officer, who reviews passwords and refuses to explain his decisions.
The materials are available in A4 and US Letter, in colour and in black and white, as PDFs and images, with a presentation deck for internal briefings. They may be used unaltered without charge or attribution, the credit already being printed on each poster.
Shakel Ahmed is a cybersecurity solutions engineer with more than twenty years in the industry and the founder of CyberDesserts, a cybersecurity learning platform. King of Cybersecurity is his most recent project and operates separately from CyberDesserts. It has published fifteen illustrated chronicles since launching in 2026, and adds to the free awareness collection through the year.
Both are registered Cybersecurity Awareness Champions with the National Cybersecurity Alliance, a free registration open to any organisation.
Shakel Ahmed
King of Cybersecurity
management@kingofcybersecurity.com
1 https://kingofcybersecurity.com
2 https://kingofcybersecurity.com/royal-armoury/
3 https://shakelahmed.com