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The Awareness Practitioners

by Risky Creative

The podcast for the people making security human.If your job is to make people care about security, this podcast is for you.The Awareness Practitioners covers the honest realities of security awareness work. The wins, the failures, the frustrations, and the breakthroughs. No vendor fluff. No scare tactics. Just real conversations for the people doing the work.Solo episodes, guest conversations, and practical takeaways for anyone working in security awareness, behaviour change, or human risk.New episodes every Thursday. Hosted by Ant Davis at Risky Creative.

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Episodes

  1. Out of Rungs (The Security Awareness Career Ceiling)

    Where does a security awareness career actually go? I went looking, and I did not like what I found. Salaries flatten early. The senior seats barely exist outside the biggest companies. The job market does not even track security awareness as its own discipline. But it does track something else,...

  2. What's the SANS Security Awareness and Culture Summit Actually Like?

    Ahead of the SANS Security Awareness and Culture Summit at Caesars Palace, I sat down with Rachael, global PMM and head of marketing for SANS Digital, to find out what's actually waiting for you there. We talk about the keynote on espionage, trust and the people around you, what it's like when...

  3. The Octopus Principle: What a Pink Octopus Taught Me About Security Awareness

    Your awareness programme might have a brand. It might not. But what if people actually talked about it? In this episode I look at what Octopus Energy did in a low-interest category that everyone hated, and why it maps directly onto the security awareness problem. We cover the von Restorff effect,...

  4. Why Being Right Is Never Enough (The Semmelweis Problem)

    You can have the data, the evidence, the results. And still watch it change nothing. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis worked out why mothers were dying in a Vienna maternity ward. He proved it. He cut the death rate to almost zero. And the medical establishment turned its back on him. He was right about...

  5. The Traffic Warden Problem

    Nobody runs out of their house to thank a traffic warden. They are walking down the street doing a job most people would actually agree with, but every single interaction they have lands at the worst moment of somebody's week. Sound familiar?In this episode of The Awareness Practitioners, Ant…

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  6. They're Not Breaking the Rules. The Rules Are Broken

    Nearly a thousand people were using a tool that legal wanted to block. Instead of blocking it, we asked why they were all using it in the first place. That question changed everything. In this episode, I take a concept from urban planning called desire paths and apply it to security awareness. A...

  7. Oli Inkley: From Shop Floor to Security Culture

    Oli Inkley started on the Waitrose shop floor. Four and a half years later, he's starting a new adventure in security awareness and culture at Marks and Spencer.In this episode, Oli talks about how he went from managing retail teams and night shifts to building champions programmes, learning to...

  8. World Password Day Doesn't Work. That's Not The Point

    World Password Day doesn't work. Most of us in security awareness know that. But that doesn't mean you should stop using it. In this episode I break down where World Password Day actually came from, why it became one of the most recognised awareness dates in cybersecurity, and why the advice most...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The podcast for the people making security human.If your job is to make people care about security, this podcast is for you.The Awareness Practitioners covers the honest realities of security awareness work. The wins, the failures, the frustrations, and the breakthroughs. No vendor fluff. No scare tactics. Just real conversations for the people doing the work.Solo episodes, guest conversations, and practical takeaways for anyone working in security awareness, behaviour change, or human risk.New episodes every Thursday. Hosted by Ant Davis at Risky Creative.

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The podcast for the people making security human.If your job is to make people care about security, this podcast is for you.The Awareness Practitioners covers the honest realities of security awareness work. The wins, the failures, the frustrations, and the breakthroughs. No vendor fluff. No scare...

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The Awareness Practitioners is created and hosted by Risky Creative.
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