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Role of Emotional Intelligence in Creating a Healthy Information Security Culture
Nadia El Fertasi, Human Readiness and Resilience Expert and former NATO senior executive, highlights the importance of leveraging emotional intelligence to create and sustain a healthy information security culture. During a very thought-provoking discussion, Nadja...
Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Cyber Security – Interview on U.S. National Privacy and Cyber Security Podcast
On this week's U.S. National Privacy and Cybersecurity Podcast, Nadja sat down with Jeremiah Buckley and Jody Westby to discuss how to use emotional firewalls to counter cyber attacks: ⏭ We spoke about the vulnerability of the algorithms of our mind. ⏮ Why emotional...
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...
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...
Readiness & Resilience Guides
How to Minimize the Pain of Cyber Crime through Emotional Firewalls
Imagine you wake up one morning and prepare to go to work, whether behind your virtual screens or in the office. Chaos. Disruption. Networks down. No access to critical files and business services. What’s first thing that comes to mind? How would you...
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,...
Blogs
Why Developing Cyber Resilience Requires Emotional Intelligence
Liability cases are rising as the top leaders of corporations are being held personally accountable for data breaches. The Bank of Ireland, for example, was recently fined a record €24.5m and publicly reprimanded by the Central Bank of Ireland for IT failures dating...
Building Emotional Firewalls during the upcoming holidays – Part Two
Welcome to part two of not being fooled by criminals during the holidays! In part one, we touched more on some of the apparent risks of technical nature. In part two, we will look at some of the emotional intelligence strategies you can use to protect yourself from...
Don’t get fooled during the holidays – Part One
The holidays are around the corner. Whether you are religious or not, is a time of year where our sensory experiences are heightened through social media holiday ads, through outside decorations and visual artefacts who remind us of that time of year. The end of 2021...
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...
What you need to know to build unbreakable trust with your stakeholders
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....
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