Building Emotional Firewalls
Cyber criminals manipulate people based on their emotions. We help you mitigate social engineering attacks through our unique Tabletop Exercises. Want to learn how?
Meet John! John has been a CISO of Company Y for five years now. Ever since COVID-2019 disrupted ways of working in his organization, he has had some sleepless nights. Cyber-attacks have seen a sharp rise of 600%, and over 75% are because of human error.
Despite all the cybersecurity awareness and training, no one seems to care! Only 45% of the entire workforce is taking these training sessions. And half of them keep making the same mistakes. His management and peers understand that cybersecurity is critical; it keeps popping up everywhere. And yet, cyber breaches keep taking their toll on him and his team.
We helped John turn this around. We worked with John and his peers to design and facilitate Tabletop Exercises where Stakeholders, Senior Leadership, Management Teams and Staff exercise collaborative leadership. They leave with a toolbox on how to fuel IQ & EQ simultaneously, increase stress tolerance, build resilience, engage stakeholders and build thriving teams.
The TTE replicates cyber attacks which are social engineering techniques to inflict cyber crime such as the most prevalent phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, impersonation and identity theft.
Lisa, a marketing manager with the company, loves this approach! She has been struggling in managing her team remotely and handling all the increasing workload.
Now, not only has she learned how to foster cyber hygiene, preparedness and resilience within her team: she also has a toolbox in increasing her team’s productivity and engagement levels despite external disruptive factors.
Within six months, the participation rate in this training has gone up to 85%. The human error went down from 75% to 44% as people learned how to build their emotional firewalls against the rising malicious social engineering attacks by cyber criminals.
What we deliver…
- The design and development of real-life inspired cyber crime scenarios to exercise collaborative leadership across the entire life-cycle of a cyber security attack. Learn more…
- Fuelling your IQ & EQ, Increase your Stress Tolerance, Building Resilience, Stakeholder Engagement, Exercise Crisis Communications, and Building Thriving Team Cultures. Learn more…
- Dynamic and interactive virtual team workshops with break-out groups leveraging creative problem-solving and decision-making to real-life inspired cyber crime scenarios. Learn more…
“Beat cyber criminals at their own game. We help you build emotional firewalls against social engineering attacks.”
Our Value Proposition
“Having worked for nearly two decades in the world’s largest crisis management organization in the area of cyber security, Nadja is an expert in designing disruptive Cyber Security Scenarios for our Tabletop Exercises”.
Who do we serve
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/ Chief Technology Officer (CTO) struggling to train their (remote) workforce in building cyber resilience & preparedness and reduce human vulnerabilities in social engineering attacks.
“We provide an innovative and creative way of team-building experience while learning how to build cyber hygiene as part of a new mindset”.
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Nadja has worked for nearly two decades at NATO, the world’s largest crisis management organization. Her last position was Senior Executive at the NATO Communications and Information Agency, responsible for strategic stakeholder engagement and communications for implementing NATO and Nation’s Digital Transformation programs.
Having worked closely with people from over 40 countries, she is uniquely skilled in fostering trust and understanding among diverse, global stakeholders in both the public and private sectors across various industries.
At Thrive with EQ, Nadja designs and facilitates cyber-crime simulations to help people build emotional firewalls against social engineering attacks. She addresses the human factor by exercising collaborative leadership skills during cyber crises. Nadja possesses the latest credentials in the field of emotional intelligence and trained with leading experts in the field.
Nadja’s character is what defines her passion and purpose in her work and the relationships with her clients. Her personality is fuelled through her character signature strengths, which include creativity, wisdom, humor, bravery, social intelligence, curiosity and kindness. She is fluent in Dutch, English, French and has a good understanding of Italian and German.