Category: News
Influence the decision-making unit and turn your ideas into reality
Sarah Janes 
We share common challenge. The decision-making unit for security is too large. Last week I was asked ‘what’s your biggest business challenge?’ My answer, ‘the decision-making unit for security awareness is too large. It slows down conversion rates and inflates cost of sale.’ Booted off board agenda… again Some aspects […]
Layer 8 signs VCW as UK distribution partner for cyber security training solutions
Tony Dimech 
Layer 8, provider of experiential cyber security training solutions, has appointed VCW Security as UK distribution partner. As an established UK distributor of IT security solutions and services, this partnership will enable VCW to expand its portfolio of cyber security solutions. This will allow resellers to provide customers with an […]
How do you talk about online collaboration tools to your business?
Sarah Janes 
‘I want to use the latest online collaboration tool, what’s your advice on securing it’? “When people start asking me proactively, that’s my measure of success. That was how a conversation ended between me and the Head of Security at a FTSE100 company. It started a little differently – ‘we […]
Measurement Hacks – A cheat sheet for creating people-centred security KPIs
Sarah Janes 
How will you measure the Return on Investment? It’s a question that perplexes many of us when it comes to security awareness, and a lot of people I speak to struggle to provide an answer that is both clear and concise. I used to be no different. But, because building […]
How to Score Some Quick Wins With Your Security Culture
Mike Carter 
“If you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by one percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.” So said Sir Dave Brailsford, the former coach of the Great Britain Cycling Team. He was […]
GDPR Reasons to Be Cheerful
Amanda Price 
It’s fast upon us! Come May, the GDPR will be law, with much-publicised fines that will hurt businesses which either fail to report a data breach of personally identifiable data within 72 hours or are unable to demonstrate that their data governance systems and operations are sufficiently equipped to mitigate […]
Worried That Compliance Isn’t Enough?
Sarah Janes 
A common complaint of CISOs is that employees know what to do but they just don’t do it Awareness of rules and best practice fails to produce effective follow-through when it comes to security behaviours, whether it’s exercising caution around emails, locking screens when leaving computers unattended, or shredding documents […]
How Do You Know If Your Security Training is Working
Amanda Price 
How Do You Know If Your Security Training is Working? In this month’s Layer 8 webinar The Hackers’ Perspective: helping employees understand security vulnerabilities we look at examples of effective training methodologies, which combine: Rehearsing for Reality – giving participants chance to try out their responses to complex security situations. […]
