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Humans Are Not the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity w/ George Finney
Allan is joined by George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University and author of the book Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future.
George’s mission is clear: unite the cybersecurity community through proven strategy, and help preserve and leverage the humanity within cybersecurity.
He believes that the community as a whole under-plays the human role, and he and Allan discuss potential changes to the way we view security awareness training and the role of users in general.
Key Takeaways:
00:18 Intro/Bio
01:25 George’s story
04:27 Humans are not the weakest link in cybersecurity
07:17 How habits affect security awareness
08:30 The 9 habits and forming your cybersecurity personality
14:05 How secret keepers build a community
17:30 Potential improvements to security awareness training
22:22 The origin of the nine habits
26:50 What surprises George about cybersecurity still?
Links:
Learn more about George on LinkedIn and on Twitter and buy his book!
Follow Allan Alford on LinkedIn and Twitter
Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio and The Cyber Ranch Podcast
Sponsored by our good friends at Uptycs
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Allan is joined by George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University and author of the book Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future.
George’s mission is clear: unite the cybersecurity community through proven strategy, and help preserve and leverage the humanity within cybersecurity.
He believes that the community as a whole under-plays the human role, and he and Allan discuss potential changes to the way we view security awareness training and the role of users in general.
Key Takeaways:
00:18 Intro/Bio
01:25 George’s story
04:27 Humans are not the weakest link in cybersecurity
07:17 How habits affect security awareness
08:30 The 9 habits and forming your cybersecurity personality
14:05 How secret keepers build a community
17:30 Potential improvements to security awareness training
22:22 The origin of the nine habits
26:50 What surprises George about cybersecurity still?
Links:
Learn more about George on LinkedIn and on Twitter and buy his book!
Follow Allan Alford on LinkedIn and Twitter
Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio and The Cyber Ranch Podcast
Sponsored by our good friends at Uptycs
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