The Role of Storytelling in Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Gabriel Friedlander

Human-Centered Security

Gabriel has been studying human behavior for a long time. His first company, ObserveIT, an insider threat management platform recently acquired by Proofpoint, dealt with monitoring and reporting on out-of-policy employee behavior. Today, as the founder of Wizer, a security awareness training platform, Gabriel is focused on ensuring, as he put it, “security awareness is a basic human skill.” In fact, not only is Wizer’s training user-friendly and in digestible chunks, most of it is free.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Cybersecurity awareness training should start with stories, to connect with people and encourage them to take action.
• Cybersecurity awareness training should then focus on developing the skills that can be applied to a variety of scenarios (as Gabriel says, "we can't teach everything.").
• Make security easy--but roadblocks may necessary to get users to slow down and think.