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Why I’m considering buying my 6-year old a smart phone for Christmas
Is 6-years old to young for a smart phone? The gut reaction is ‘damn right it’s too young’, ‘what do they need it for’. Well…
Six steps to setting up your security champions network
This month we’ve focused on security champions, and keeping it straightforward when it comes to pitching to the board, getting set up and measuring the…
Case Study – Security Champions
Today we have published a new case study documenting the development and implementation of a successful security advocates programme. Our client, a large utilities company,…
5 ways to evidence behavioural change through security champions
Five ways to evidence behavioural change through security champions Measuring change is notoriously difficult to translate into hard numbers. While we all want to…
Should security departments be responsible for cyber awareness?
…I thought it was genuine… Last week a friend sent me this… A WhatsApp message stating if I clicked I’d get £75 of Costa vouchers.…
Influence the decision-making unit and turn your ideas into reality
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…
Layer 8 signs VCW as UK distribution partner for cyber security training solutions
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…
How do you talk about online collaboration tools to your business?
‘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…
Post GDPR Package for SMEs – Talk Secure Behaviours
Got everything in place for GDPR, but still worried an employee could cause a breach? Get your people compliant and improve their security behaviours around…
Measurement Hacks – A cheat sheet for creating people-centred security KPIs
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…
Layer 8 Presents at CSARN
12th March, Layer 8’s Managing Director Sarah Janes, addressed a highly engaged and insightful audience at CSARN, the City Security and Resilience Network. Talking about…
One Powerful Skill We All Possess But Fail To Use When Changing Security Behaviours
Have you ever felt stuck? I have, and I hate it. Feeling that you’ve no choice and that you’ve just got to carry on with…
How to Score Some Quick Wins With Your Security Culture
“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…
GDPR Reasons to Be Cheerful
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…
IT Security Training for London businesses
The Risk is Highest Where Employees Believe They Are Secure We often begin our workshops with businesses by asking employees how confident they feel that…
Layer 8 Provides Cyber Awareness for Cambridgeshire Businesses
Are Cambridge, Milton Keynes and Oxford on track to become the UK’s Silicon Valley? A recent report from Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics…
