Second Security Awareness Community Workshop

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(Timezone - Europe/Amsterdam)
Virtually Hosted
Description

Reserve time in your diary for an engaging workshop on the mechanics of behavioural change and an opportunity to share best practices, challenges, and insights with your peers.

We are honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Kristin Weber, Vice President for Digitalisation and CIO at the Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS), as our keynote speaker. Kristin will give us a deep dive into the four key behaviours in cyber security followed by an introduction to the COM-B model - a science based behaviour change framework that proposes three necessary components for any behaviour to occur.

During the break-out sessions, participants will brainstorm on an approach or measures to encourage a specific security behaviour (such as reporting malicious messages, locking screens and safe authentication). The sessions will be guided by a moderator from the Subtask Awareness (part of the security Work Package within the GÉANT GN5-1 project).

We close the workshop with an inspiring presentation from KU Leuven, Belgium’s largest university, on their security awareness programme for staff and students.

The workshop is open to all members of the community that are working in security awareness, whether they are new to the field or have many years of experience.

Important note: this session is a workshop requiring active participation. We offer an interesting learning opportunity, therefore we kindly also ask you to get actively involved and contribute to the discussions in the break-out sessions.

Registrations are now closed. For inquiries, please contact securityawareness@lists.geant.org

 

Subtask Awareness (GN5-1 WP8)
    • 2:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Keynote: Prof. Dr. Kristin Weber 30m

      How does behaviour change work? How to turn security behaviours into habits? Kristin Weber will share insights on behavioural change, using the COM-B model as a framework.

      Speaker: Prof. Kristin Weber (Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS))
    • 2:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Break-out session 1 30m

      In small groups, we will brainstorm on an effective approach to encourage users to report cyber incidents, lock their screen or implement safe authentication. Participants will receive a hand-out from the moderator helping them to use the COM-B framework for behavioural change.

    • 3:00 PM 3:15 PM
      Coffee break 15m
    • 3:15 PM 3:45 PM
      Break-out session 2 30m

      In small groups, we will brainstorm on an effective approach to train people to distinguish fake from real and prevent social engineering attacks. We will use several awareness materials created by GÉANT and the NREN community. Participants will receive a hand-out from the moderator helping them to effectively communicate on the topic of social engineering.

    • 3:45 PM 4:15 PM
      Best practices from the R&E community 30m

      In an academic environment, where innovation and openness are key, the risks from cyber threats are particularly high. KU Leuven, Belgium’s largest university, has been proactively raising security awareness and training for years through the e-mune programme. Using a structured approach, targeted campaigns and effective communication, KU Leuven has succeeded in creating a culture of information security. Sofie Pieraerd and Karel Titeca, from KU Leuven’s central IT department, will share how they started with small steps and gradually expanded the programme, and which campaigns they have launched over the years.

      Speakers: Mr Karel Titeca (KU Leuven), Ms Sofie Pieraerd (KU Leuven)
    • 4:15 PM 4:30 PM
      Wrap-up 15m