Lisa Plaggemier | Source | Interim Executive Director at NCSA
Lisa Plaggemier
Lisa Plaggemier is the Interim 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.
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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.
3 December 2021
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3 December 2021article
It’s October. Are you aware of cybersecurity yet? - StateScoopFew people overtly oppose Cybersecurity Awareness Month, though you wouldn’t know by looking at Twitter. The most common complaints fall into two main categories, the first being organizational: There’s just too much going on at once. Dustin Volz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, pointed this out on Twitter on Oct. 6, writing, “At least four DC-based cyber conferences happening today, with many of the same speakers rotating through. Some made news, but easy to get lost in the cacophony of noise. Most recycle exact same talking points to largely overlapping audiences. Who is this serving?” The investigative journalist Kim Zetter made a similar observation, concluding that “October becomes cyber fatigue month.” The other category of criticism is more cynical. It’s not just that Cybersecurity Awareness Month is poorly implemented at times, but that it’s a become a bit of farce: just more box-ticking from the bureaucrats while the threat of...
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