Lisa Plaggemier is the Executive Director at NCSA. Lisa is a trailblazer in security training and awareness, a prominent security influencer, and a frequent speaker at major events. She uses her deep and diverse experience to fuel an innovative approach that engages learners and influences behavior.
Lisa Plaggemier hadn’t written code before, but her years in the marketing department taught her how to get people thinking about it. The then-director of security culture at ADP Dealer Services (now CDK Global) had the task of getting the organization’s seasoned developers to enroll in application-security courses.
The sheer volume of data leaked in MOAB could make it easier for threat actors to execute more convincing social engineering attacks. “They know so much about you now,” Lisa Plaggemier, executive director at National Cybersecurity Alliance, a cybersecurity awareness and education nonprofit, says. “It makes it easier for them to sound incredibly convincing in a phishing email or a text.”
Cyber criminals often scour the web for data and other personal identifiable information (PII), which they can use against you to implement phishing attacks, phone scams, account takeovers, and more. One way to prevent this? Google yourself. Better yet—just dox yourself. Why? Lisa Plaggemier, executive director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, boils it down to awareness and prevention.
This isn’t about raising awareness among security professionals. It’s for everybody else. It’s for people like my mom, it’s for people like my kids. And if you’re tired of it, it’s actually because you’ve been paying attention. But the vast majority of people aren’t paying attention. If it was up to me, we would ban all pictures of hackers in hoodies and binary floating across the screen and pictures of skulls and crossbones. All that garbage, we would just get rid of all of it. To me, that’s not motivating. Security folks are usually glass-half-empty people and we have to realize that not everybody sees all the stuff we see every day. We have to do a better job of communicating and relating to the public.