Boosting Cyber Security

Social science enhances how people respond to cyber security threats, by helping individuals overcome the biases exploited in cyber attacks. A novel approach to cyber security training increases staff self-efficacy when responding to malicious messages.

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Workplace Survey

I reflect on an example of how to use results from employee feedback in a productive way. I also cover some technical aspects of project management for our online training game.

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Online Training Game

This week’s been a whirlwind of activity. We’re wrapping up the first phase of our cyber security project. We’ve created a brand new online game to train people about how to be safe online.

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Scaling Successful Trials

I’m back at work this week. I was officially on holidays from the 16th of December until the beginning of this week, however, I ended up having to work every day of my holidays. That was because our public health trial, which need to be extended.

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Public Health Trial in the Field

All of my waking hours are dominated by our public health randomised control trial, which is currently in the field.

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Bibliography and Cyber Training

Today was another day of back-to-back meetings and workshops. I worked on managing our team’s bibliography and our cyber security project.

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Public Health Planning

Back to back meetings from 9:00am through to the afternoon. Most were for planning our randomised control trial in public health.

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Ethics and Cyber Security

I spent the first half of the day working on our ethics application for my new randomised control trial, which is rapidly moving into fieldwork. The second half was spent on a rapid research proposal for testing cyber security awareness.

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