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People-Centric Security: Transform Culture, Reduce Risk, Drive Success

This session links security culture and program performance, providing tools and guidance that will enable attendees to measure, manage and transform their own organizations’ security culture. Cases studies will be reviewed, and attendees will receive access to proven models, frameworks and tools for measurably improving the cultural maturity and behavioral reliability of their security program.

Speaker

Lance Hayden ( @hay_lance ); Masha Sedova ( @modMasha )

Dr. Lance Hayden is a Managing Director at the Berkeley Research Group, an international strategy and consulting firm. Hayden’s security career spans 25 years across the public, private and academic sectors. His interest in human security behaviors and culture began as a HUMINT operations officer with the CIA, and he has held positions at KPMG, FedEx and Cisco. Hayden provides expert advice and guidance on information security strategy, measurement and culture to companies and governments around the globe. He is the author of “People-Centric Security: Transforming Your Enterprise Security Culture” from McGraw-Hill. Hayden received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, where he teaches courses on security, privacy and identity.

Masha Sedova is the Senior Director of Trust Engagement at Salesforce. She has built a team that drives a secure mindset amongst all employees using user security behavior testing and data analytics paired with elements of gamification and positive psychology. The scope of her work runs the gambit of general awareness such as phishing and reporting activity to secure engineering practices by developers and engineers. She and her team have built security simulations, MOOCs, company-wide competitions and custom lab environments to drive effective learning of vital security behaviors. Her efforts have culminated in a security program that is altering the way Salesforce’s employees, customers, partners and large corporations approach security.

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