Category: Psychology
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I recently coauthored an article for the ISACA Journal with a coworker about imputing the cost of a data breach from record count. We also recorded a podcast based on the article. You can read the article here and listen or watch the podcast. I also authored a piece for the @ISACA newsletter on the…
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I have a “warehouse” full of good cyber risk things to share with you below: Here is an ISACA piece I was asked to write about things Cyber Risk professionals need to focus on in 2022 This ISACA column I wrote speaks to the role that bias plays in how cyber news is fed to…
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I had a great time writing this post for the FAIR Institute. I was inspired by post-doc David Levari of the Harvard Business School’s article in The Conversation called Why Your Brain Never Runs out of Problems to Find. In it he talks about how our brains have a sliding scale of what “badness” is over…
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My latest @ISACA column was posted recently. This time I tackled a hard issue in the human factors space: awareness training. Specifically, I explored the notion that having a good security team may actually impede the effectiveness of a security awareness program. I did this through the application of some concepts from the bystander effect.…
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I was reading up on cyber deterrence today and ran across this little gem in relation to nuclear deterrence: Because of the value that comes from the ambiguity of what the US may do to an adversary if the acts we seek to deter are carried out, it hurts to portray ourselves as too fully…
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In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger devised the thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s Cat. It’s a gruesome but pretend experiment where we place a cat in a cage (sometimes a box) with a device that could randomly release a poison that is capable of killing the cat. However, it may also never release the poison…
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