Beyond Awareness...

People are central to the cybersecurity equation: workers click on malicious links, deploy weak passwords and share credentials for many, many reasons – even though they know they shouldn’t. Awareness campaigns are no longer enough to protect your staff – and therefore your company – from cyber-attack.

Changing staff behaviour involves complicated ideas around identity, vulnerability and ‘whose-job-is-it-anyway?’ motivation. Which is where we come in.

We turn your staff from a vulnerability into an active line of defence.

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Understand your staff

There are powerful determinants of whether people deploy good cybersecurity practices or not. As Australia’s leading behavioural cybersecurity consultancy, GEIST deploys well-tested, empirically proven cognitive models that predict behaviour. We use a custom-designed suite of established measurement devices to assess the attitudes and motivators of the people who work with you, and this knowledge allows us to tailor advanced cyber security solutions for your people.

Quantify staff behaviour

Can you be sure that your people are actively protecting your assets from cyber-attack, or even that they know how? Rogue security breaches are commonplace, and attackers master a wide array of tools to target workers. We use established and rigorous survey methodology to catalogue behaviours and reveal systemic vulnerabilities in cyber security programs.

Create the culture

Your workplace has its own innate culture, and this is the key to increasing workers’ engagement with cyber security. Inherent in shared responsibility is a sense of ownership and pride, so GEIST creates a safe space where workers can share experiences – good and bad – and model a ‘collectivised’ culture in which each member of the group fights for the benefit of the whole. Attacks are then reported immediately, and knowledge shared.

Bed down the culture

One of the most important determinants of people adopting new behaviours is seeing their colleagues and – most importantly – their managers carrying out the new practices. GEIST offers management workshops that will help your leaders lead, and further embed a more holistic culture in your workplace.