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Culture & Awareness
Explore how organisational culture influences cyber resilience. These posts focus on shifting mindsets, building awareness, and embedding security into everyday behaviours.


The Twelve Scams of Christmas
Around Christmas, the online world turns into a glittering bazaar—and unfortunately, a few grinches set up shop too.
Brian Hay
Dec 10, 20251 min read


Why Culture Eats Technology for Breakfast
In today’s rapidly evolving environment, understanding the intricate dance between culture and technology is more crucial than ever. Our...
Brian Hay
May 14, 20241 min read


Shock One: One Off Annual Mandatory Cyber Awareness Training Does Not Work!!!
Cultural Cyber Security conducted confidential interviews with 365 people from 10 organisations across Australia during 2022. The...
Brian Hay
Mar 23, 20232 min read


3rd Party Risk: Is it time to pull our heads out of our clackers?
Another win for cybercriminals due to a 3rd party provider breach via a human compromise. Would you allow your children to get into a car that was technically perfect, but the driver wasn’t qualified to drive? Of course, the answer is a definitive “No!” We are obsessed with a 3rd Party assessment process that considers all of the technical controls yet there is no assessment of the human at the helm of those controls or functioning at every level within the environment. Are t
Brian Hay
Mar 22, 20232 min read


Building a mature cyber awareness/culture program
We want our organisation to be full of amazing people doing amazing things in an amazingly safe way. But where do we start? Where do we...
Brian Hay
Oct 29, 20211 min read


Awareness Vs Culture - What's the difference?
The headline of “Cyber security awareness” reads everywhere – but is it enough? Is “awareness” a compliance mentality? What is the...
Brian Hay
Oct 21, 20211 min read


Cultural Cyber Security eMail Risk Assessment Guide
Our 'eMail Risk Assessment Guide' is a tool provides an assessment tool for the identification of phishing indicators within emails. This...
Brian Hay
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Building a Cyber Security Culture in a Remote Workforce
COVID-19 has changed the face of the workforce forever. It is unlikely that things will fully return to the way they were. Data breach...
Brian Hay
May 28, 20211 min read


Don’t tick the box … Change your Culture!
Have you ever taken one of those stupid on-line health and safety compliance tests? After you read 20 minutes of mind-numbing information...
James Carlopio
Jan 22, 20212 min read


Cybercrime and Social Engineering Threats – COVID-19
Criminals thrive during tough fiscal times because they’re adept and skilled at exploiting people’s emotions who desire a better life,...
Brian Hay
Mar 20, 20206 min read
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