Are remote workers more security-savvy than on-premises? | Guest Joseph Nwanpka

Miami University's (in Oxford, Ohio) Farmer School of Business Information Systems and Security researcher Joseph Nwankpa joins Cyber Work today. Nwankpa recently wrote a report that overturns some huge assumptions: he found that work-from-home employees are, to a large degree, less of a security issue than many on-premises workers. Nwankpa discusses The Peltzman Effect, the persistent struggles to create security awareness that lasts past the initial training sessions and talks about some surprising reasons that the higher education sector has been shown to be less sophisticated in their security awareness than many other industries.

0:00 - Are remote workers more cyber secure?
2:00 - How did Joseph Nwankpa get into cybersecurity?
7:53 - Findings on remote worker security
12:00 - Cybersecurity strategies in different work locations
17:05 - A company's cybersecurity compliance culture
19:07 - Best lessons for best remote work security practices
22:00 - Internalizing securing awareness
26:40 - Higher ed issues with cybersecurity
31:00 - Higher ed and phishing emails
33:00 - Remote work security blind spots
35:50 - Become a security awareness professional
41:54 - Miami University's information systems program
44:00 - Learn more about Nwankpa
45:01 - Outro

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