How can cyber security professionals use psychology to help people prioritise cyber security in the workplace? 1. Increase face-to-face interaction Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of messages from IT security departments are written and sent digitally. Emails and...
To truly increase cyber resilience, cyber security training is going to need to focus on changing human behaviour Earlier this year, the UK government released its latest report on cyber security breaches amongst UK businesses. The findings were somewhat...
Following a series high-profile cyber attacks, most cyber security professionals predict the future will be bleak. Our CEO, Oz Alashe, meanwhile, has other ideas “Is this the end of the world as we know it?” asked IT security specialist Susan Morrow in her blog post...
The psychologist Gerald Wilde certainly thinks so – and he’s armed with credible examples that back up his claims Here’s one such example of what psychologist Gerald Wilde calls risk homeostasis. On Saturday, 2nd September, 1967, the population of Sweden went to sleep...
A follow-up to a previous post on harnessing the power of people in our fight against cybercrime Our previous article highlighted some interesting statistics According to a Mozilla, 91% of people still “don’t know much about protecting themselves online.”...
Cybercrime and cybercrime success are both on the up. To stand any chance of meaningfully reducing cybercrime, we need to call on an underused resource Today’s cyber criminals have it easy At least, that’s what newspaper headlines seem to suggest. “Companies struggle...
