A Successful Security Strategy Is All About Relationships. Here’s How to Build Them.

Security efforts are not limited to security teams. High impact strategies need to engage everyone from employees to the board of execs, DevOps teams and IT. Learn how how to become not just an effective partner but a trusted advisor across an organization.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/relationship-framework-for-security-leaders/

Your Legacy Phishing Solution Isn’t Enough to Protect Your Organization

CISO Josh Yavor explains why legacy phishing solutions aren't effective in preventing successful attacks, and what you can do about it.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/human-layer-security-vs-legacy-solutions/

9 Things I’ve Learned Writing Phishing Emails

Ethical hacker, Craig Hays, explains why copywriting, timing, and context are all essential "ingredients" in crafting a phishing attack.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/9-things-i-learned-writing-phishing-emails/

Employee Burnout Will Probably Cause Your Next Data Breach

Understanding how stress impacts cybersecurity behaviors could significantly reduce the chances of people’s mistakes compromising company’s security.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/employee-burnout-causes-breaches/

Stateful Machine Learning is Our Best (And Only) Bet

Traditional machine learning methods that are used to detect threats at the machine layer aren’t equipped to account for the complexities of human relationships and behaviors across businesses over time. There is no concept of “state” — the additional variable that makes human-layer security problems so complex.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/stateful-machine-learning/

How Easy Is It to Phish?

You don't have to be tech savvy to become a "hacker". This blog outlines how to create a phishing campaign, and was designed to help security leaders protect their organizations.

https://www.humanlayersecurity.com/blog/how-to-create-a-phishing-campaign/

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Dr. Karen Renaud

Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Strathclyde

Dr Karen Renaud is an esteemed Professor and Computing Scientist from Abertay University whose research focuses on all aspects of Human-Centred Security and Privacy. She's especially interested in the interplay between users and security in the context of societal and industrial use, and her goal is to improve the boundary where humans and cybersecurity meet.