The Role of Storytelling in Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Gabriel Friedlander

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.

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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.