42 - Don't Click the Link with Joanna Sitta, BCBA

It's Valentine's Day, and love is in the air in the Sittadel Podcast.  The birds are chirping, the phishers are rhythmically clacking away on their mechanical keyboards, and somewhere in the distance the cryptominers are buzzing away in a misconfigured S3 bucket.  On this very romantic episode of the Sittadel Podcast, Joshua tricks a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst into discussing cybersecurity for a solid hour.   But this isn't just any run of the mill Security Awareness Training conversation.  This is a hot and heavy discussion between Joshua "Statistically Average in Height" Sitta and Joanna "The Perfect 10" Sitta.  To set the mood, Joanna explains the origins of Applied Behavior Analytics and gives us a crash course in behavior interventions. The two discuss the fallacies of "Don't Click the Link" training and talk through two examples of pitfalls organizations wander into while dealing with the problem of phishing emails.  Always searching for Joanna's approval, Joshua finishes out the show by laying out his blueprint for effective Security Awareness Training.  In this episode, we discuss Security Awareness Training, Phishing Emails, The Nigerian Prince scam, Spearphishing emails, the importance of data relevance, Hook Security, simulated phishing campaigns, and tikka masala.  For more Indian food recipes, head over to www.sittadel.com or send an email to Ask[at]Sittadel[dot]com.