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Beyond the Kill Switch: Building Emotional Firewalls against the Pain of Ransomware
Including the human factor in cyber security to minimize the pain of ransomware attacks by building emotional firewalls. When we help people overcome the impulse of fear, decisions based on reason can prevail. Until two years ago, cybersecurity was primarily used as a...
How to build trusted relationships with stakeholders during cyber breaches
Visible costs of cyber attacks should send shivers up our spine, but the invisible costs have much longer ramifications and ripple effects on the well-being of our global economies and societies. With the exponential move to remote working due to the pandemic,...
Cyber Transformations: The Conversation Continues
By Alejandro Fernández-Cernuda Díaz February 2, 2021 On November 19, 2020, the last session of Cyber Transformations took place with a simulation exercise for the regional units of Eastern Europe and Asia. It was the fifth webinar of the series, jointly designed...
Building emotional firewalls against social engineering attacks
I remember when we got our first computer. I was 13-year-old. Although in my mind it looked like a Macintosh, it was a second-hand computer like the ones you saw at the doctor's practice. At that time, it felt exhilarating to have an electronic device at all! The...
Cyber Transformations: The Leadership Approach through EQ
What’s the correlation between protecting your cyber preparedness and readiness strategy and emotional intelligence ? That’s what we exercised and discussed today as part of WSBI-ESBG and Global Cyber Alliance regional training webinar for Central Europe and Asia....
Three Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence and Minimize Cyber Risk Through Human Vulnerability
Working through the cloud and on virtual networks brings specific vulnerabilities, such as cyber attacks—more due to human error than working through the cloud itself. For example, in the UK alone, human error caused 90% of cyber data breaches in 2019, according to a...
Cyber Transformation: From Strategy to Operations
How confident are you that your organization is fully equipped to avert, counter and respond to a cyber crisis? According to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group, the financial sector is 300x more likely than any other industry to get attached. Human...
Preparing future leaders to navigate cyber crisis simulations through EQ!
I was privileged to design and facilitate an EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Crisis Simulation Workshop for the German Marshall Fund's Leadership Lab with rising leaders from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The workshop included two half-days interactive crisis...
Team building through Crisis Simulations for the European Commission
On Thursday 12 December, I designed and facilitated a team building workshop for the European Commission focused on exercising team collaboration in high pressure environments. The afternoon workshop consisted of a crisis scenario simulation based on exercising...
