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The intention-behaviour gap in cybersecurity

More and more we see cybersecurity professionals using surveys about attitudes and intention as performance indicators of their interventions. While questions like “Do you think it is important to use complex passwords” might give an insight on someone’s attitude toward password complexity, they are not good indicators of our human-risks. Values, Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviours are sometimes confusing concepts for some people. Here is a quick summary of the differences between values, attitudes, intentions and behaviours and what we should do to reduce the gap.

The Consumer Authentication Strength Maturity Model (CASMM)

A few days ago, Daniel Miessler updated the Consumer Authentication Strength Maturity Model (CASMM) to the version 6.

It is a great #visualization of consumers’ password maturity.

While we are sometimes still struggling with people using shared password or bad quality passwords, it will help show the path to more secure behaviours.

Also, it might create an anchoring effect and move the perceived norm for authentication to a higher level of maturity.

You can find the latest version of the CASMM on Daniel’s website: https://danielmiessler.com/p/casmm-consumer-authentication-security-maturity-model/

Security Awareness Series from NCSA

In 2019, Adobe, the US National Cyber Security Alliance, and Speechless have partnered to bring you a series of security awareness videos. The plan is to release one video every other month starting November 2019. A total of eight videos have been released. 

Episode 1: Passwords
Episode 2: Data Handling
Episode 3: Compter Theft
Episode 4: Phishing and Ransomware
Episode 5: Removable Media
Episode 6: Vishing
Episode 7: Internet Downloads
Episode 8: Wi-Fi