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You can’t just “train harder” to mitigate human risk. We sit down with Ashley Rose, CEO and co-founder of Living Security, to unpack why classic security awareness training (SAT) often produces neat dashboards with flimsy outcomes, and what it takes to build a security culture that people actually engage with. Ashley shares her non-traditional path into cybersecurity, how marketing principles map nicely to behavior change, and why the security team has to become approachable if we want employees to ask questions, report issues, and stop working around controls.

We trace Living Security’s early days running security escape rooms, then zoom out to the bigger shift: human risk management (HRM) as a true risk management function. That means moving beyond completion rates and phishing simulations to quantify likelihood and impact using real signals across behavior, threat, and identity. We get specific about what that looks like in practice: endpoint compliance, MFA adoption, password hygiene, dark web credential exposure, privilege levels, and blast radius. The payoff is prioritization and focus, including the uncomfortable reality that a small percentage of users can drive a majority of measurable risk.

We also dig into the hard parts that make or break programs: integrating data in messy enterprises, avoiding noisy alert floods, and operationalizing outcomes through automation and adaptive controls. One of the most practical takeaways is simple but sharp: make the secure path the easiest one to follow. When people repeat risky actions, it often signals friction and broken business processes, not “bad users.” We close by looking ahead to a hybrid workforce where humans and AI agents share access, shifting the workforce attack surface again.

If you’re a CISO, security leader, or practitioner trying to prove ROI, reduce phishing and insider risk, and modernize security awareness into measurable human risk management, hit play. Subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review, then tell us: what’s the most broken workflow in your organization that security should fix first?

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What happens when college athletes suddenly become brands… and targets?

In this episode of Simplifying Cyber, we sit down with sports law expert Matt Banker to unpack the fast-moving world of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) and the cybersecurity risks hiding beneath the surface.

From hacked athlete data and fake endorsement deals to deepfakes, shady agents, and social engineering scams, we explore how money in college sports is creating a whole new attack surface. 💸

We also dig into:

• Real-world cases of data breaches in college athletics
• How third-party tools and “shadow tech” are quietly increasing risk
• The role of parents, athletes, and schools in preventing fraud
• Why NIL deals are as much about contracts and compliance as they are about cyber awareness

Whether you’re in cybersecurity, college athletics, or just curious how AI and money are reshaping sports, this episode connects the dots in a way you won’t hear anywhere else.

🎧 Listen now and learn how to stay one step ahead—on and off the field.

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The fastest way to turn a cyber incident into a business disaster isn’t ransomware, it’s confusion. We sit down with Violet Sullivan, AVP and Cyber Solutions Team Lead at Crum & Forster, who has worked across cyber law, breach notification, digital forensics and incident response, and now cyber insurance. That vantage point lets her translate what each group needs when pressure is high and everyone is speaking a different language.

We get practical about the moments that create real-world chaos: overlapping roles like “breach coach,” acronyms that make leaders freeze, and the dangerous assumption that someone else already handled comms or law enforcement outreach. Violet breaks down a cleaner way to run the response by focusing on function: legal help, technical help, and operational help. We also talk about why crisis communications deserves a seat at the table early, how PR teams organize messaging by audience, and how to avoid the cleanup phase that happens when people speak too soon.

Then we zoom out to the contract that quietly shapes the whole response: cyber insurance. Violet explains why insurance is not “admitting defeat,” but a risk transfer mechanism that can fund response vendors and influence decisions when you cannot afford mistakes. We also tackle emerging AI risks, including more believable social engineering and the legal concern that sharing privileged legal advice with AI tools may put attorney-client privilege at risk.

If you want clearer incident response planning, better tabletop exercises, and fewer “who has the ball?” moments, hit play. Subscribe, share this with your security or legal team, and leave a review with the one part of your response plan you want to simplify next.

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