Cybersecurity Awareness: Challenges and How to Promote Safe Behaviors
Wajdy Essam on turning traditional awareness programs into lasting secure practices through interactive learning, phishing simulation and gamification.
- Speaker
- Wajdy Essam
- Date
- 1 October 2024
- Format
- Online Webinar
About the Lecture
This lecture discusses the importance of cybersecurity awareness and its role in reducing risk within organizations, and the challenges awareness professionals face in bridging the gap between knowledge and safe behavior.
It explores how traditional awareness programs can be developed into effective, sustainable security practices, using techniques such as interactive learning, phishing simulations and gamification to assess employee behavior and improve security habits.
About the Speaker
Wajdy Essam is a systems architect with more than eight years of industry experience across internet security, microservices, and web and mobile applications. His interests range from web application and API security to malware analysis and cryptography.
