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PRESENTATION – From Awareness to Behaviour Change
In this brief presentation Sarah Janes gives an overview into why we still fall for phishing emails. Introducing some of the psychological reasons just telling people…
Think your recruitment agency is not at risk from a cyber-attack? Think again
Cyber-attacks are real. Every day businesses are being hit around the globe and the impact is both financially and reputationally damaging. The focus on data…
Black Friday Training Offer
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…
Tips for Developing New Cyber Security Skills Within 2-Hours
“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…
“Nah, Cyber’s not for my business, it’s too small”
I recall a local business meeting. You know the ones. You have 2-minutes to pitch your business to the rest of the room. Afterwards a…
Layer 8 Offers FREE Cyber Event to Local Businesses During National Cyber Security Awareness Month
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…
Layer 8 Offers Free Cyber Event for Local Charities During National Cyber-Security Awareness Month
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…
“I can’t get leadership support”
Early in August I shared my story of developing a Security Champions programme that went viral, at SANS https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-summit/archives/file/summit-archive-1565204404.pdf . Following that talk many discussions…
Layer 8 MD Sarah Janes speaks at SANS
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…
Layer 8 goes multilingual!
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…
How to measure changes in security behaviours and culture
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…
Outstanding Apprentice
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…
Conversation, our catalyst to change security behaviour
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…
The board meeting that went bad: sharing tips on RoI
“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…
Developing Secure Behaviours: our latest white paper
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…
Only 3.4% of employees regularly talk to their colleagues about security
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…
