Category: Blog
Black Friday Training Offer
Sarah Janes 
In the month leading up to Christmas, your employees will get more emails than ever about their online purchases. But some of them won’t be what they expect them to be! That email from Amazon saying your payment wasn’t successful. Or one from Apple thanking you for ordering 20 Miley […]
Tips for Developing New Cyber Security Skills Within 2-Hours
Sarah Janes 
“I get emails from my boss asking me to pay invoices all the time. I never gave them a second thought until today” Last week we held a workshop at Layer 8 offices. This quote was from one attendee astounded by methods used by cyber-criminals and pledging to improve their […]
Layer 8 Offers Free Cyber Event for Local Charities During National Cyber-Security Awareness Month
Sarah Janes 
Here at Layer8 we strive to make the cyber security world as safe as possible both within businesses and at home. We do this by engaging employees in a conversation about security that is meaningful and helps facilitate change. On the 29th October – We are offering local charities the […]
Layer 8 MD Sarah Janes speaks at SANS
Sarah Janes 
In August Layer 8’s Managing Director, Sarah Janes, was invited to talk at the prestigious SANS Security the Human Summit in San Diego. Sarah shared her story of creating a network of Security Champions that went viral. Sarah shared tips on the technique, Appreciative Inquiry, and how the team adapted […]
Layer 8 goes multilingual!
Sarah Janes 
This summer the team worked extra hard preparing our content in 18 languages, in addition to English. The translations include: Norwegian Swedish Dutch Chinese Thai German Korean Malay Marathi Spanish Italian Brazilian-Portuguese Turkish French Slovenian Polish Japanese Czech The content is available as part of our Layer 8 Toolkit, which […]
Conversation, our catalyst to change security behaviour
Sarah Janes 
If we remove conversation from our security awareness toolset, we remove our ability to change behaviour. That was my enduring message at my talk last month at Cyber Security and Cloud Expo. I was speaking about how we can move people from knowing what they should do to doing it! […]
The board meeting that went bad: sharing tips on RoI
Sarah Janes 
“How can I prove I spent well” Last week a colleague relayed his story of a board meeting that went bad. He’d worked hard prepping the business case. But was rebuked with a chorus of. “I’ve seen all the horror stories.” “How much will that actually mitigate the risk.” And […]
Developing Secure Behaviours: our latest white paper
Sarah Janes 
There’s a misapprehension that because culture is a complex phenomenon it’s hard to define. Actually, it doesn’t have to be difficult: Culture is how we communicate what matters to us through what we say and do on a daily basis. Not so long ago, technical attacks by cyber-criminals required security […]
