Something quite unique is taking place right now. A confluence of two unrelated events and news stories that together may have enough of an impact to help influence security awareness and behaviour. I’m firstly talking about the rapidly approaching May 25th...
Back in December I shared the stage with Dr. Ciaran McMahon and Dr. Jessica Barker as we completed our 2017 grand tour of Europe delivering the Security ABC Workshop at ISC2 London. The workshop’s were really very well attended, with in excess of 100 CISSP’s and non...
CISOs are worried and unhappy and it’s the human factor in their organisations that’s to blame. That’s pretty clear from a recent cross-sector survey of information security professionals by the Ponemon Institute. With over two-thirds thinking that their...
The link between Behavioural Economics and the design of effective Security Awareness programmes may, at first, not be apparent. In fact, its theories and lessons have greatly impacted our work here at Marmalade Box. Let me explain. For two centuries, the idea that...
In the information security sector, one of our main aims is to change, create or reinforce some specific behaviour. How well we do this depends largely on whether or not the ‘product’ we design meets the needs of our ‘consumers’. Ineffective...
It’s 20 years since management guru Tom Peters coined the phrase ‘personal brand’ – the on-going process of managing our image to influence the way others think of us. Even if we don’t actively do this, we all have a personal brand by default. Like it or not, this is...
