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Why we need new and better human cyber risk metrics
Reading Time: 2 minutes To make a difference as a security professional today, you need board support. You need resources. You need directors to trust and back you. You need organisational leaders to promote security.
Meaningful Metrics for Human Cyber Risk
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this whitepaper, we outline the CybSafe approach to applying behavioural science, how it’s embedded in everything we do and how our products drive behaviour change in employees.
Why do some organisations use two security awareness training solutions at once?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why do some organisations often use two or more security awareness training solutions at once? That’s a question that grabbed our attention when it popped up on social recently. The comment highlighted the following security oddity…
What we learned at SABS4CYBER 2019 – Part 2 of 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes SABS4CYBER is an annual conference that shines a spotlight on social and behavioural sciences. More specifically, SABS4CYBER puts the people using social and behavioural science to solve security challenges into the spotlight.
What we learned at SABS4CYBER 2019 – Part 1 of 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes SABS4CYBER is an annual conference that shines a spotlight on social and behavioural sciences. More specifically, SABS4CYBER puts the people using social and behavioural science to solve security challenges into the spotlight.
Measuring Cyber Security Culture
Reading Time: < 1 minute This whitepaper reveals how today’s security teams can build a secure culture. Following characteristically thorough research, lead author Dr. John Blythe explains why secure cultures are few and far between and how to build a secure culture in your organisation.
Behaviour Change whitepaper
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this whitepaper, we outline the CybSafe approach to applying behavioural science, how it’s embedded in everything we do and how our products drive behaviour change in employees.
People-centric security e-book
Reading Time: < 1 minute Is it time to reconsider traditional approaches to cyber security? For a long time now, people have largely been viewed as a cyber security “weakness”, and the viewpoint has shaped the majority of the cyber security strategies we see today.
What we learned at PeepSec 2019 – Part II
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is Part Two of a post reviewing key takeaways from PeepSec 2019. You can read Part One here. To access the free video recordings of every talk from PeepSec 2019, register here.
What we learned at PeepSec 2019 – Part I
Reading Time: 3 minutes Following its inauguration in 2018, PeepSec returned in 2019 to facilitate further discussion on the opportunities and issues born from the interactions between people and technology.
Using AI and machine learning to improve cyber defences and reduce human cyber risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes To understand how AI and machine learning can reduce cyber risk, it’s worth considering how a typical taxi journey will look in a few years time.Today, when you jump into a taxi, you’re greeted by a driver who might inquire into your preference of radio station and ask you one or two cursory questions while edging you towards your eventual destination.
Let’s punish phishing victims… er, you want to do what?!
There is a big, hairy elephant in the room when it comes to phishing: Many organisations believe that it’s okay, or right, or that they have no choice other than to punish people who repeatedly fail phishing simulations. Are they right? Before we answer that, let’s...
In the absence of a secure culture, reducing cyber risk could be impossible
Reading Time: 3 minutes To understand why it might be impossible to reduce human cyber risk without a secure culture, it’s worth considering a series of experiments from the world of behavioural science.The experiments weren’t designed to uncover security insights. Rather, they were designed to demonstrate quirks in human behaviour. Specifically, they were designed to reveal why people sometimes “cheat”.
You are almost certainly miscalculating your cyber risk
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although it might not seem like it, people’s actions following 9/11 demonstrate just how likely it is you’re miscalculating your cyber risk.Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, people began to change their travel plans.
Some people love to take a risk. So shouldn’t we be tailoring security awareness training?
Reading Time: 2 minutes As you may already be aware, most people prefer to avoid taking risks. In fact, most people prefer to avoid taking risks so much that they fail to do so even when taking the risk makes complete and total sense.