Meet a FAIRCON24 Speaker: Gav Schneider on Building a “Human Firewall”
We’re looking forward to two sessions at the 2024 FAIR Conference led by Dr. Gavriel (Gav) Schneider because he’s posing some challenging questions about where the FAIR movement is heading, as he says, “almost past quantification. It’s not just quantification, it’s about the outcome.”
“Practically you could have the best quantification methodology but if nobody will buy into what you want to do and adapt and evolve, you won’t be successful.”
“Gav's expertise provides crucial insights into how to manage the challenges that an organization's culture can pose when trying to build or operate a cybersecurity program,” says FAIR creator Jack Jones.
FAIRCON24 Sessions with Gav Schneider
“Leveraging Human Capabilities to Create Influence & Outcomes Workshop”
Monday, September 30, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
“Beyond Cyber Security – Developing Agile Risk Management Capability by Building Your Human Firewall”
Wednesday, October 2, 3:00 - 3:40 PM
Register for the 2024 FAIR Conference and Training now!
Gav is CEO at Risk 2 Solution Group, an Australia-based consultancy that offers a broad range of risk management services, from the physical to the cyber (he started his career as a bodyguard). He contends that the point of view of cyber risk managers isn’t broad enough. For starters, it habitually under-plays the human element.
Take “security awareness training,” often resented by employees as a time waster. “We are treating people like they are dumb and that we have to manage them because they could not be taught to do it for themselves. That’s a failure of the experts, not the individual.”
The goal should be “not just following good cyber hygiene. It’s an embedded understanding that if we are safe and secure in what we do, we enable the performance of the business. At that point, cybersecurity is seen as an enabler for the business to succeed as opposed to a cost center.”
Gav calls optimally trained and motivated employees the “human firewall.” “We need people to be reporting and an active player, not simply monitoring…The tools we have now are incredibly useful but they still monitor digital behavior, not human behavior that often creates vulnerabilities.”
Gav, a specialist in the psychology of risk, developed the concept of “presilience” or Proactive Resilience, as he defines it, “how you stop the bad thing from happening and make an opportunity out of it with human centricity.” He calls it the opposite of the compliance mentality, an attitude that will resonate with FAIR practitioners.
Get trained in presilience at Gav’s workshop session during the FAIR Conference training day of Monday, September 30, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM or hear a short introduction in his ideas at a session on Wednesday, October 2, 3:00 - 3:40 PM. Register now for FAIRCON24!
