Security awareness training fails on attention, not on content. The material is genuinely important and almost universally delivered as a slide deck with a voice-over, which learners click through without absorbing — and an accredited certificate cannot afford that.
Sixty lectures is also a production problem rather than a creative one. Anything hand-crafted per lecture would drift: level one and level seven would look like different courses, and by lecture forty the visual language would have quietly changed.
The subject matter resists illustration too. Encryption, phishing, data exposure and privacy are abstractions with nothing to film, so every concept needed inventing as a visual before it could be animated.
And it had to survive translation into a certified programme. Content that is accredited gets reviewed, which means the animation has to stay accurate to the script rather than take liberties for the sake of a nicer shot.