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SANS has recently published its annual security awareness report (click on the link for a copy). Key is the concept of ‘security awareness’, which when combined with their Security Awareness Maturity Model provides a pathway to improved cyber security by managing the organizations cyber security culture.

Sound familiar? It should as that has been my message for years and is integral to my approach and courses. All the cyber security technology is worthless if the organizations cyber security cult

Dear Global Risk Community member

Join us at our new webinar https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/8271/236353     "Cyber Wack-a-mole It is not a game".

Chasing and fixing cyber threats can be depressing, rather like the old 'wack-a-mole' game. No matter how quick you are in knocking down the threat, or mole, new ones appear. We will present a strategy to break the cycle. 

You will still need to fight the cyber threats but you will have a way to become proactive and not be easy prey for the cyber

There is a weakness in cyber risk to focus on the technical issues. They are necessary but not sufficient if you want to understand and manage all your cyber exposures, which I define as the vulnerabilities that arise as a result of activity using computers and the Internet. There is a great range of these vulnerabilities that are not being addressed.

An example would be the exposures that arise through the use of Social Media if not managed and controlled. For example posts that reveal sensitive