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Equal Opportunities in Cybersecurity in Europe
Our CEO/Founder Nadja El Fertasi is proud to be part of an exciting collaboration between Global Cyber Alliance and Women4CyberFoundation, exploring the increase of diversity and improving equal opportunities in the cybersecurity sector in Europe. According to Nadja...
Interview Head Governance RedShift & Global Cyber Alliance Ambassador Rois Ni Thauma
Last week, Anne Leslie, Senior Cyber Security Consultant IBM and I had the immense pleasure of having Rois Ni Thauma, Head of Cyber Governance - Red Sift Limited - Global Cyber Alliance Ambassador. Cyber crime and ransomware are making headlines all over the globe...
People are not Processes to be “Managed”
Cyber is no longer only about protecting data, but safeguarding people’s digital foot prints and saving lives. Why emotional intelligence and cyber security ?🤔 Tune in and listen 🎧 to 6clicks #fourminute #thursday where I had the pleasure to answer this and other...
How EQ Makes An Effective IT Leader With Nadja EL Fertasi
- Originally published on June 2, 2021 at Redzone10X In this episode, we’re talking about how EQ aka emotional intelligence can help you become an effective and successful leader. We’re here with the founder and CEO of Thrive with EQ, Nadja EL Fertasi. As a...
Collaboration Guides
Financial Services Sector Cyber EQ Collaboration Guide
Minimizing the Pain of Cyber Crime: The Human Factor Until two years ago, cybersecurity was primarily used as a sexy buzzword, a trending phenomena reserved and understood by few. Today, cyber breaches worldwide are the root cause of digital pain for many societies,...
Videos
How Cyber Criminals Hack your Mind – Building Emotional Firewalls
When you meet someone for the first time, four questions pop subconsciously in your mind: 1) Who is this person? 2) What do they want? 3) How long is it going to take? 4) Are they a threat? This reaction mode is necessary to keep us safe from danger and become...
Navigating Ransomware Attacks – Minimizing the Pain of Cyber Crime
The pain of ransomware is felt deep in our societies, organizations, and at a personal level. The disruption is caused by cybercriminals who have no regard for democratic values and ethical principles. Criminals motivated by money, espionage, and political reasons to...
Blogs
Equal Opportunities in Cybersecurity in Europe
Our CEO/Founder Nadja El Fertasi is proud to be part of an exciting collaboration between Global Cyber Alliance and Women4CyberFoundation, exploring the increase of diversity and improving equal opportunities in the cybersecurity sector in Europe. According to Nadja...
Drones, Cyber and EQ: Building Human Readiness in the Age of Disruption
The commercial market for buying and deploying drones is almost as accessible as buying toys from amazon. So why should you care, you may think? "Drones are becoming less expensive while the technology behind them continues to develop rapidly. As such, we are seeing...
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...
