Cyber Security Hygiene - Don't Wash Your Hands Of It (Anglian Coastal Local Network).
Paul Maskell, Head of Cyber, Risk and Technology of UK Finance, spoke at the 'Cyber Security Hygiene - Don't wash your Hands of it' webinar organised by the Anglian Coastal Local Network.As a lecturer in Cyber Psychology, he explained people are less motivated by cyber security as we have always been conditioned to give data away. We have be taught there is no value in our data. However, once we understand the value of our data , we automatically start to become motivated to protect it. For example, we might not value our own data, but hackers do!! Your data has value to someone, somewhere - and that should motivate you to not only value your data, but also know how to protect it. He explained that online data is virtual, therefore our value mechanisms are based of risk assessments. For example…