Category: News
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 […]
How to measure changes in security behaviours and culture
Sarah Janes 
Back in March Layer 8’s MD had an awesome discussion with Jinan Budge of Forrester Research. Jinan and her team were creating a paper on ‘how to measure changes in security behaviour and culture’. A definitive answer to this question is one that has alluded our industry for years! The […]
Outstanding Apprentice
Sarah Janes 
Layer 8 Ltd are on the lookout for an outstanding Apprentice to join their team! Layer 8 Ltd are strong believers that in the heart of any excellent organisation are exceptional employees of all levels. This in turn helps us to recognise the importance of nurturing and developing talent within […]
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 […]
Only 3.4% of employees regularly talk to their colleagues about security
Sarah Janes 
During 2018 we ran our Security Culture Survey with over 2500 employees, asking them ‘how often do you talk about security at work’? I knew the result would be low, but I didn’t expect it to be as low as 3.4%. Does it matter if employees are not regularly talking […]
