By Eh’den (Uri) Biber

Welcome back. Is there an information security sense like there is a sense of smell? Can we evaluate it? Why our normal definition of information security prevents us from reaching awareness? In case you missed the first article, please start there before continuing.

In this article we will look at our senses. After all the definition of awareness is all about being able to notice, and we notice via our senses.

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By Eh’den (Uri) Biber

Why am I writing this series, and why awareness is not as straightforward as most of us perceive it to be.

Introduction

Awareness is a wonderful buzz word. From a very young age we are being expected to “be aware” of what’s going on and to be able to react accordingly, even though most of the people who are trying to make us “aware” have no clue what true awareness is. Blind to the beauty of true awareness we convince ourselves that we might not understand reality but at least we are aware of it, yet  nothing could be further from the truth.

Fast forwarding to “information security”, which is a domain in awareness that includes technology. There have been many discussions in our community about this topic: some people claim that information security awareness training is a waste of money and others claim it is a crucial element in making organisations secure. Continue reading →

The message

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So here we are, in this world. Trying to survive, trying to understand, trying to remember who we are, amidst constant drifting changes… and then one day, when we arrive to work someone presents us with a new requirement that says “you must learn this! You must understand it. You must change!”

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