Good Doesn’t Always Win: Understanding technical and enterprise tradeoffs in Cybersecurity

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Presented at BSidesLV 2023 by

Vanessa Redman

You have just started a new job, and, after settling in, find a huge cybersecurity gap. The great news is you have the perfect solution! The bad news is the company said no thanks. You are taken back and try to explain that this is simple cybersecurity basics, but the company has any number of reasons why they don’t feel it’s a good solution: money, time/effort of implementation, “we have never had a problem before”, or maybe your own IT department is saying that it won’t work. What do you do to make sure your company stays secure? Cybersecurity has arguably reached the point where most organizations understand its necessity, at least in concept. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is open to hearing about the latest threats and all the work (and money) that needs to be spent reducing your risk. This talk is designed to be an open discussion on understanding human behavior, and some tools that could help a cyber professional be more successful, particularly when it comes to negotiating better decision making.