A Their Story conversation with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli

Guest: Colin Bastable

Organizations are defined by their culture—and the culture is determined by the collection of individuals that make up the organization. Organizations that take information security seriously and work with their employees to understand and embrace their role in protecting themselves and the business are the organizations that stand a better chance of thwarting off an attack.

According to today’s guest, Colin Bastable, 97% of all of the threats originate with some form of social engineering. So, organizations must work on having an understanding of the human angle as it relates to these threats—both the employees as humans and the cybercriminals as humans. Organizations must understand the human motivation—both to attack and to protect themselves. People are people on all sides of the equation—it’s just how it is; it’s just how they are.

Once you have this understanding, coupled with how the protection technologies work, you can begin to identify the gaps between what the technology can offer and what the humans can do for themselves. It’s this gap that needs to be closed.

Are you interested in understanding how to identify and close this gap? Have a listen to this chat with Colin—he’s seen this in action all around the world in many different industries.