A Visual Summary of SANS Security Awareness Summit 2021

On August 4 & 5, thousands from around the globe tuned in for the SANS Security Awareness Summit. Industry’s top practitioners and leading experts from near and far shared their latest security awareness research, solutions, tools, and case studies. It was a great opportunity for cybersecurity professionals and those new to the field.

We invited Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind's Eye Creative to create graphic recordings of our Summit presentations. If you missed a talk or are looking to view the SANS Security Awareness Summit through a visual lens, take a look at the recordings below.

In addition to graphic recordings, PDFs of Summit presentations are available on the SANS Summit Archives page (SANS account required) and videos will be posted to YouTube over the next several months.

*If you registered for the Summit, video recordings will be available on your Summit Access page in your SANS Portal shortly after the conclusion of the event.

Day 1

Keynote: Incidents, Breaches and Hacks... Oh My! It’s All About the Human Heather Mahalik, Senior Instructor, SANS Institute

Quantifying Human Risk with the 2021 DBIR Alex Pinto, Distinguished Engineer, Verizon Enterprise Services

Building Partnerships Across the Company to Inform and Mature a Security Awareness Program Abigail Beehler, Security Awareness Manager, Salesforce

Business Email Compromise: The Silent Cyber Threat Crane Hassold, Director of Threat Intelligence, Abnormal Security

Panel: Metrics for Today’s Leaders Moderator: David Breg, Deputy Research Director, WSJ Pro Panelists: Kurt John, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Siemens USA Masha Sedova, Co-Founder & President, Elevate Security Oz Alashe, CEO and Founder, CybSafe Alex Pinto, Distinguished Engineer, Verizon Enterprise Services

The Power of the Collective Lisa Plaggemier, Interim Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance

Translating Cyber: How to Shake Off the “Curse of Knowledge” and Make Your Security Message More Impactful Kerry Tomlinson, Cybersecurity News Reporter, Ampere News

Don’t Reward The Brilliant Jerk: Fix Toxic Security Culture Jinan Budge, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Day 2

Keynote: Designing For The Behaviors You Want BJ Fogg, PhD., Behavior Scientist, Stanford University

Cybersecurity is Human Security: What Does and Doesn’t Work to Address Human Risk Benjamin Edwards, Senior Data Scientist, Cyentia Institute

NIST, NICE and YOU – The Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Professional Karen Wetzel, Manager, NICE Framework, NIST Marian Merritt, Deputy Director, NIST

Leverage the Power of Enabling Change Rob Oddi, Change Management, Culture & Leadership Expert

Lightning Talk 1: Carrots and Sticks: Why You Should Think Twice About Punishing Your Staff John Blythe, Director of Research & Behavioral Science, CybSafe

Lightning Talk 2: How Aligned Are You With Your Leadership? Janet Roberts, Global Head of Security Education & Awareness, Zurich Insurance

How Non-Educators Educate Effectively – The Secret Recipe to Building Impactful Training Programs Mary Dziorny, Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, Accenture

Democratizing the Hacker Mindset – A Guide to Transitioning from Binary to Analogy Moussa Noun, Sr. Manager Cyber Awareness & Education, Royal Bank of Canada

Virtually Training Your Workforce: How to Provide Awareness When Your Workforce is Remote Priya Vennapusa, Governance Awareness and Training Leader, BCBSM

How to Roll Your Own Pro-Level Content on the Cheap Perry Carpenter, Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, KnowBe4

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