The Science of Security Awareness: Building a Better Awareness Program

March 16, 2015 (at 9:30 a.m.)

This popular, highly-rated class is back and more practical than ever! Whether you already have a security awareness program in place or you need to build one, this is the right place to be. We look at examples of various types of security awareness programs, how they function and what is lacking. We cover how people learn, how they retain security awareness and what it takes to make sure they react the right way. We address your security awareness needs. Using ISECOM research for Security Awareness Learning Tactics (SALT) and the highly successful high school security awareness program, Hacker Highschool, we show you how to add functional, measurable science to the art of security awareness.

This 1-day class covers:

  1. Analyzing security awareness programs
  2. How we should learn and retain security with examples.
  3. How we should train for security with examples.
  4. What a successful security awareness looks like.

Pete Herzog

About the Trainer Pete Herzog is a security professional, neuro-hacker and managing director for the non-profit security research organization, ISECOM. He created the first social engineering methodology for quantifiable testing of human security for OSSTMM 2.1 in 2002. By 2003 he created Trust Metrics for measuring the amount of trust one can put in anything in a quantifiable manner which was added to OSSTMM 3 in 2010. In 2009 Herzog began working with brainwave scanners and tDCS to directly manipulate the brain and understand how people learn and focus attention. In 2013 he released the Security Awareness Learning Tactics (SALT) project to specifically design security awareness based on the neuro research. You can read more about Pete here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29#Notable_social_engineers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Herzog https://www.linkedin.com/in/isecom