I was recently on CybSafe’s Behave podcast to talk about some of my experience and thoughts around the people side of security. Have a listen here:
Security Serious Unsung Heroes Award 2022
Every year Security Serious holds the Unsung Heroes Awards, with categories ranging from “Godmother / Godfather of Security” through to “Best Security Awareness Campaign”. I was genuinely surprised to learn that I was in the running for a Security Leader / Mentor award. “The winner of this award will be someone in industry who leads […]
The Jerich Show
The lovely Javvad Malik and Erich Kron, invited me to join them on their show to chat about a few issues in the news as well as a bit about security awareness and culture. It was nice to be invited and a fun chat, thanks guys! You can the episode here.
Human-Centred Security: Positively influencing security behaviour
Last year the cool folks at the Information Security Forum got in touch and asked if I would be interested in being interviewed for a new publication they were going to put together on human-centered security. Being someone who has an interest in all things human related when it comes to security I thought why […]
Context Switching
It’s like alt-tabbing constantly but in real life. Imagine the following… You’re trying to get on with your daily tasks. You’re in your flow and you notice an email come in marked urgent which you’re cc’d into and a bunch of people want your opinion on something today. You answer it and get back to […]
The Human Factor in Security
Last week I took part in IT Security Guru’s tweet chat. It was a fun little tweet along and they’ve now taken the time to write it up as a blog for those who missed it. You can check out the blog piece here. Thanks to IT Security Guru for facilitating it and much respect […]
People, process and technology: A post for newbies.
The people, process and technology triangle is over rated. Yeh I said it! Oooh I can already sense some people getting ready to flame me. Ok, it’s a bit of a click bait title but what isn’t today. Ok, let me tell you a story… A little background… A while back a graduate asked me […]
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (VDBIR) is a must read for anyone in the info and cyber security field as it provides a really good insight into current data breach trends and it’s pretty too, yes reports can be pretty look… I sat down with an ice cream (erm…it’s a lockdown coping control oh […]
Visual Thinking
I like to doodle. I doodle when I’m in meetings. I doodle when I’m on the phone. I find it helps my creativity. I recently purchased Visual Thinking and it’s already giving me some cool ideas, especially when you need images for presentations. Now I’m thinking why not create my own? Obviously it’ll depend on […]
Security Culture TV
A few years ago my friend Kai Roer and I got on Google Hangouts to talk about security awareness, behaviour and culture and we had some great guests join us. Now it’s back and Kai invited me along to have a catch up, cheers bro! I’m looking forward to all the new guests, their perspectives and opinions. […]