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All the content from last year’s PeepSec, Impact and flagship industry events
Blind Spot: Do You Know the Effectiveness of Your Information Security Awareness-Raising Program?
Information and IT security awareness-raising measures and the evaluation of these measures are an indispensable part of today’s information and knowledge society. While the number of firms that apply such measures is increasing, surveys of corporations show that it...
Contextual security awareness: A context-based approach for assessing the security awareness of users
Assessing the information security awareness (ISA) of users is crucial for protecting systems and organizations from social engineering attacks. Current methods do not consider the context of use when assessing users’ ISA, and therefore they cannot accurately reflect...
CybSafe 2023 winter release
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Cybersecurity automation should focus on human risk
Applying cybersecurity automation to human cyber riskAutomated, real-time, and personalized workflowsIntroducing WorkflowsCybersecurity automationA leap forward in human risk managementGetting startedTurning work into WorkflowsAs a security professional managing human...
Why am I failing to engage my workforce in cybersecurity training?
There is an immediate need to shift towards a cybersecurity awareness approach that truly understands the challenges of people today—where personalised, on-demand, and simple experiences aren’t just desired, but expected.
Online safety awareness and human factors: An application of the theory of human ecology
Efforts have been made on large and small scales to reduce cybersecurity threats around the world, including in Malaysia. However, scholars have argued that, in spite of the technological preparations countries can take to shield themselves from attack, human factors...
A zero-shot deep metric learning approach to Brain–Computer Interfaces for image retrieval
In this paper we propose a deep learning based approach for image retrieval using EEG. Our approach makes use of a multi-modal deep neural network based on metric learning, where the EEG signal from a user observing an image is mapped together with visual information...
From awareness to influence: toward a model for improving employees’ security behaviour
This paper argues that a conventional approach to cybersecurity awareness is not effective in influencing employees and creating sustainable behaviour change. The increase in security incidents caused by employees is evidence that providing information to raise...
About the Measuring of Information Security Awareness: A Systematic Literature Review
To make employees aware of their important role for information security, companies typically carry out security awareness campaigns. The success and effectiveness of those campaigns has to be measured to justify the budget for example. Therefore, we did a systematic...
Developing metrics to assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity awareness program
Cybersecurity awareness (CSA) is not just about knowing, but also transforming things learned into practice. It is a continuous process that needs to be adjusted in subsequent iterations to improve its usability as well as sustainability. This is possible only if a...
CybSafe research uncovers a distinct gap in workplace Cybersecurity prioritisation
Research finds 31 per cent of people are more likely to prioritise keeping on top of emails than cybersecurity training The fundamental shift in our content consumption habits calls for a new approach to cybersecurity training in the workplace Canary Wharf, London, XX...
A systematic review of current cybersecurity training methods
Cybersecurity continues to be a growing issue, with cyberattacks causing financial losses and loss of productivity and reputation. Especially in an organisational setting, end-user behaviour plays an essential role in achieving a high level of cybersecurity. One way...
Developing a cyber security culture: Current practices and future needs
While the creation of a strong security culture has been researched and discussed for decades, it continues to elude many businesses. Part of the challenge faced is distilling pertinent, recent academic findings and research into useful guidance. In this article, we...
Conceptualization of a cybersecurity awareness quiz
Recent approaches to raise security awareness have improved a lot in terms of user-friendliness and user engagement. However, since social engineering attacks on employees are evolving fast, new variants arise very rapidly. To deal with recent changes, our serious...
Asset Management: The ‘wizard of Westport’
The Financial Times
ICBC trying to curb impact of US ransomware attack, says China
The New Zealand Herald
Wall Street and Beijing fight fallout of ransomware attack on China’s biggest bank
The Financial Times
On demand webinar: CybSafe’s 2024 security awareness predictions
ON DEMAND WEBINARCybSafe’s 2024 security awareness predictionsThe experts unpack 2024’s cybersecurity threats and trends.Every year, the cybersecurity world is flooded by predictions from all corners. Trying to guess what 2024 has in store is like trying to predict...
Black Friday scam warning as expert issue tips to stay safe this sale season
Daily Record
A pond full of phishing games – analysis of learning games for anti-phishing education
Game-based learning is a promising approach to anti-phishing education, as it fosters motivation and can help reduce the perceived difficulty of the educational material. Over the years, several prototypes for game-based applications have been proposed, that follow...
Biden signs executive order directing AI companies to develop safer AI
Silicon Angle