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Webinar description

Statistics show that the majority of cyber security incidents are caused by the “inadvertent insider.” If we address cyber security without considering the human element, it is like locking all the windows in our house but leaving the front door wide open.

Human behaviour may seem harder to measure than that of technology, but there are tools that can achieve this. This webinar will describe the types of “insider threat”, human vulnerabilities that contribute to successful cyberattacks, and how organisations can identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Presenter

Amanda Widdowson - Human Factors Capability Lead (Thales Cyber & Consulting) and President Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF)

Biography

Amanda has been applying Human Factors/Ergonomics (HF/E) for 25 years, mostly in the Defence and Rail industries. She co-developed the UK Health and Safety Executive’s Offshore Human Factors Integration (HFI) standard and led cyber security HF programmes in the Automotive (Formula 1) sector. She is an experienced HF consultant and people manager, President and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF); a registered European Ergonomist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). In 2018, she was honoured to receive the CIEHF’s Lifetime Achievement Award for “Significant Contributions to the Application of Ergonomics/ Human Factors”.