Re-thinking The Human Factor with Bruce Hallas

Why we need to re-think the human factor in security, with Bruce Hallas   Bruce Hallas sits in the hot seat for a change as Alexia of Marmalade Box grills him, for this: Series 3, Episode 4 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Having received a lot of emails asking us for more information about Bruce Hallas, the host of this podcast, Alexia agreed to put Bruce through some viewer lead ques...

Taking risks to reduce risk, with Eric Ravello   If criminals are doing research into human behaviour then they are designing phishing attacks with the human in mind. As attackers change their attacks, so must cyber security providers change their methods of dealing with them.   Eric Ravello joins us for Episode 33 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. We are holding strong to our promise t...

NEIL FROST joins us for Series 3, Episode 7 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Join us for this straight forward discussion on how to cultivate easy to digest security campaigns that have the lasting effect of benefiting culture. Neil Frost was part of the team responsible for Security Awareness and Culture at the HMRC (the UK Tax Office). Before that he worked at the UK Police Force on...

The Accidental Security Specialist, with David Shipley.   Living up to our promise to bring you fantastic guests, David Shipley joins us for Series 3, Episode 6 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Time to go phishing so grab your rod. David is a self professed accidental cyber security professional, but has spent time as a soldier, newspaper reporter and marketer. After a cyber hack withi...

DESIGNING LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT STICK, WITH MEGAN SUMERACKI   Megan Sumeracki joins us for Series 3, Episode 5 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast.  Megan Sumeracki is an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island College. She co-founded the Learning Scientists in January 2016 with Yana Weinstein. Megan received her Master's in Experimental Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and...

Storytelling For Better Cybersecurity, with Sarah Moffat Sarah Moffat joins us for Series 3, Episode 4 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. With a vast background in cybersecurity and understanding the human factor, Sarah is currently advising the Federal Government on privacy and security in Washington, D.C.  She is also a leadership and development coach, using her knowledge of psycholog...

Applying Marginal Gains One Small Step At A Time, with Chris Fleming. Chris Fleming steps in to join us for Series 3, Episode 3 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast.   If you have been with us here for sometime you will know we strive to bring you the highest caliber guests for your listening delight.   After hearing Chris do an incredible presentation at the SANS conference on marginal gai...

What Security Awareness Professionals Can Learn From Marketers and Understanding the Customer Journey, with Kenda MacDonald.   Kenda MacDonald joins us in the hot seat for Series 3, Episode 2 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. We are absolutely thrilled to have Kenda MacDonald on the show today. As I'm sure you'll agree, she has the knack for pulling things together in a way that is easy...

Reducing Cyber Risk By Reducing Friction, with Jason Hoenich Jason Hoenich joins us as we return for Series 3, Episode 1 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. We are glad to be back after our hiatus having made a few changes to the podcast that we hope will add value and increase our reach so we can continue making security and behaviour awareness an engaging topic for all. Both a security...

The Road to Effective Leadership and Successful Organizational Change, with John P. Kotter   John P. Kotter joins us on the show for episode 25 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast.   We know that while some of our listeners will see his name and ask themselves, "Who?",  those who are familiar with John P. Kotter's work will be asking, "How?". As in, 'How did they get him on the podcast?'....

What children's books can teach us about changing behaviour, with Todd Courtney   Welcome to episode 24 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Joining us on the show today is Todd Courtney , an author who has created a series of children's books in partnership with his wife that are scientifically based and geared towards instilling children with healthy mindsets and positive behavioural cir...

How to develop a security culture, interview with Gert Jan Hofstede Understanding the role of culture is crucial if we want to develop a security culture. Especially if we want to have a realistic chance of influencing behaviour, which is probably why we're wanting to develop a security culture in the first place. This is because culture is like a body of water. If you come at the water from high...

Eliciting Intrinsic Motivation and Reframing Problems, with Rachel Lawes   Rachel Lawes joins us for Episode 22 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Rachel gave a fantastic interview back in Series one of the podcast, and if you haven't had a chance to listen yet, please check it out here when you're able. We've received feedback from a few people recently about how they were really blown...

While Nathan Mielke was teaching a cyber security lesson in homeroom at the Hartford Union High School in Wisconsin, the school experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took them down for about a class period. While the identity of the attacker was never discovered, Nathan is fairly certain the attacks were coming from a student's phone, or as it goes in classic American Horr...

How a Victim of Identity Theft Uses Humour to Generate Cyber Awareness, with Bennett Arron   Welcome to Episode 20 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Joining us on the show today is Bennett Arron, Bennett was one of the first major victims of Identity Theft in the UK. According to the Police and credit reference agencies, he owed thousands of pounds to phone companies, banks and departme...

Awareness, Behaviour, Legal and Regulatory Requirements, with Jonathan Armstrong Welcome to Series 2, Episode 7 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. Joining us on the show today is Jonathan Armstrong, a lawyer who helps multinational clients with risk and compliance across Europe. Recent projects include lots on data breach, GDPR & data transfer, UK Bribery Act 2010, internal investigation...

On Episode 6 of series 2 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor podcast, we are joined by Dr Char Sample to dive into the topic of culture and the role it plays when it comes to cybersecurity. But this podcast chat is not what you will expect to hear when it comes to culture; we're going to explore how your cultural values can be used against you in cybersecurity attack.  Some of the topics we're goi...

Observations and Take-Aways: Episodes Review with Craig Thomson, Security & Awareness Manager   On this episode of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Bruce Hallas is joined by Craig Thomson, the Security Education & Awareness Manager at Nationwide Building Society. He is an experienced Education specialist with a demonstrated history of delivering impactful results in the Defence, Air & Space and In...

What makes our brains tick, and why does that matter for change managers and organizational heads?   The Human Brain vs. Awareness, Behaviour, and Culture   Hilary Scarlett is an international speaker, consultant and author on change management and neuroscience at Scarlett & Grey. Hilary's work has spanned Europe, the US and Asia and concentrates on the development of people-focused change managem...

Did you know up to 80% of information is forgotten within 24 hours? Admittedly, this is not an encouraging statistic for those of us seeking to raise awareness, change behaviour, and foster an appropriate organizational culture. For this reason, we at the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast are looking for answers from outside the security industry from people who can provide an evidence-based pa...

Understanding decision making in the workplace is almost like the holy grail. What we want is for our colleagues to make better decisions, but for this to happen we need to take a few steps back. Decision making in the workplace takes place in the context of the organisational culture. Often when we talk to people about organisational culture, they see culture as something so big that it becomes t...

Welcome to Series 2, Episode 1 of the Re-Thinking the Human Factor Podcast. It's fantastic to be back after a 3-month break!  As we like to do every so often, Episode 1 of Series 2 begins with a conversation with Louise Cockburn, a listener to our show whom we invited to come on and share insights she's picked up from previous episodes of the podcast, as well as her own experiences and thoughts on...

The challenge with creating behavioural change is doing it well enough that people actually change their behaviour consistently. And beyond that, it's about ensuring that other people in the organisation can observe this new behaviour around them so that they come to the realise this is simply "the way we do things around here" in other words, the organisational culture. When we set about creating...

We like to invite listeners to the podcast to come on the show and share insights that they've picked up from previous episodes of the podcast.  We also invite them to share their own experiences and thoughts on the challenge of security awareness, behaviour and culture. In this show, Ed Tucker, the 2017 European CISO of the Year joins us to lift the lid on the challenges he sees and the insights...

EPISODE 10 SUMMARY - RACHEL LAWES ———————————————— Joining Bruce Hallas on Episode 10 of the Re-thinking the Human Factor Podcast is Dr. Rachel Lawes, who comes to the show with a background in the field of semiotics. Don't worry, if you're not familiar with the term, you're probably in good company. However, upon learning more about Rachel and the field of semiotics prior to recording the intervi...