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How can we push employees / users to take cybersecurity to heart? Dr. Maria Bada, external behavioral scientist at AwareGO, has been working on the answer for years. After studying media psychology, focusing her Ph.D. on behavior change, and working to… Continue reading How to motivate employees to take cybersecurity seriously
A proactive technology refresh strategy and a well-integrated tech stack are, according to a recent Cisco report, two security practices that are more likely than many others to help organizations achieve goals such as keeping up with business, creatin… Continue reading Which security practices lead to best security outcomes?
Policy compliance within the information security space can be an exhausting concept to wrap our heads around. Writing a policy document, publishing it to staff and then staying hands-on to ensure it is followed in perpetuity is easily seen as an arduo… Continue reading What is Policy Compliance? Four Tips to Help You Succeed
Information security policies (ISP) that are not grounded in the realities of an employee’s work responsibilities and priorities expose organizations to higher risk for data breaches, according to a research from Binghamton University, State Univ… Continue reading Why are certain employees more likely to comply with information security policies than others?
Imagine a workplace in which all of the staff support the function of information security. Employees report suspicious events, are committed to data privacy and see the value in completing the regularly scheduled compliance trainings. How much easier … Continue reading Managing Information Security Skepticism by Changing Workplace Culture
Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative im… Continue reading What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?
Dr. Jessica Barker, Co-CEO of Cygenta, follows her passion of positively influencing cybersecurity awareness, behaviours and culture in organisations around the world. Dr. Barker will be speaking about the psychology of fear and cybersecurity at RSA Co… Continue reading How can we harness human bias to have a more positive impact on cybersecurity awareness?
Since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, organizations and even private citizens have globally begun to re-assess what it means to ‘take security seriously’ and to better understand the massi… Continue reading Navigating ICS Security: The Value of Frameworks
This post brings together powerful ideas from the interviews we’ve conducted with cybersecurity leaders for our Q&A series.
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If there was a common theme at the 2019 Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, it may well have been security culture. Culture emerged in some of the most prominent sessions and talks, including, notably, a keynote address by Dai Zovi and a session pre… Continue reading Building a Culture of Security: 73 articles Summarizing Black Hat USA 2019