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CybSafe, the human risk management platform helping organizations change behaviour to reduce security risk, today announced the appointment of Hylton Southey and Geraint Owen as VPs of Sales and Finance, respectively. These new executives will be crucial to the company’s continued growth and momentum.

Hylton and Geraint will play an integral part in expanding the company’s global reach with entrance into the North American market by increasing its presence in the United States and leading CybSafe’s financial, operational, and cultural development at a time of significant opportunity for the company. These new appointments prove CybSafe’s commitment to further growth in 2023 and beyond.

Hylton joins CybSafe as the VP of Sales and brings over two decades of experience in sales leadership, corporate development, and business strategy within the information technology and services industry. He has an extensive background in SaaS, enterprise software, and growing early-stage companies.

Prior, Hylton was Managing Director at LeanIX, responsible for accelerating the company’s growth. He was also the VP of North American Sales at MailControl. Hylton was at Mimecast for over nine years. He started off as an account executive and sales director. He then worked his way up to VP of Sales in North America, and global VP of Corp Development. Hylton’s leadership presence in Boston, MA, reinforces CybSafe’s expansion into North America and supports the company’s intent to increase the size of the team to strengthen customer support, sales and partnerships in the United States.

Geraint, as the VP of Finance, will lead CybSafe’s financial strategy and operations. He has over 15 years of experience as a finance leader, focusing on scaling SaaS companies. His background includes leading finance functions in fast-growing technology companies. Geraint was the CFO at Grip, an AI-powered event, matchmaking, and networking platform.

He was also the Finance Director at Questback, and Manager at Deloitte, working with businesses on funding rounds and IPOs. Geraint enjoys working with all aspects of the company to help drive the business forward. Geraint understands how to execute strategic financial growth plans and operational excellence. He will play an essential role as the company accelerates and scales.

CybSafe, the behavioral risk platform helping organizations change behavior to reduce security risk, has launched the next iteration of SebDB, the world’s most comprehensive security behaviors database.

SebDB is the result of collaboration between academics, government, and industry experts. It maps over 70 specific security behaviors linked to security risks. This helps security professionals prioritize the targeting of specific security behaviors to reduce risk.

It enables organizations to take a vital next step in protecting their organization that many miss. While many organizations train their people with Cybersecurity Awareness and Training, it is often not measured in any meaningful way. The links between security behaviors and risks are not always clear. It’s hard to know which interventions to apply. It’s harder still to explain how interventions reduce risk.

SebDB is built by the community for the community. It is a research effort and a practical tool that helps security professionals with the complexity and risk they face now and into the future. It helps organizations change behavior linked to security risks. 

In a world where access to technology is no longer optional, people behave differently with technology, providing more opportunities for cyber criminals. By focusing on security behavior rather than generic and ineffective Security Awareness and Training, organizations will better protect themselves.

In a recent blog written by Forrester analyst Jinan Budge, she states: “SebDB, a crowdsourced database by CybSafe, for example, contains a comprehensive list of over 70 digital behaviors to pay attention to; it goes a step further and also ties them to the risk that they pose.

“Digital behaviors include using a VPN, tethering a laptop, locking devices, changing passwords, and using password managers. While many training programs try to train people on these behaviors, hardly any of them measure whether these behaviors pose a risk to organizations, or, if they do, whether the training actually changes these behaviors. A recent NIST study supports this, with 44% of survey participants rating ‘what to measure and how to measure program effectiveness’ as ‘very’ or ‘moderately’ challenging.”

CybSafe and their products are designed for a modern workforce and a hybrid working environment. Learn more at http://cybsafe.com or at https://www.cybsafe.com/press-releases/cybsafe-launches-sebdb-2-0-to-help-organizations-measure-and-change-security-behaviors/

CybSafe, the behavioural risk platform, today announced the launch of its new platform. The platform has been built on the universal truth that access to technology is no longer optional. Every individual has to use technology today, whether at work or at home. The result: the way people are behaving with technology is leading to even more opportunity for cyber criminals to steal data and infiltrate networks. This needs to change. The security market needs a focus on security behaviour, rather than ineffective traditional Security Awareness & Training (SA&T) provided by legacy players. 

CybSafe helps organisations across financial services, insurance, legal, and technology with human risk quantification. It helps lower human risk with behavioural science and data from SebDB, the world’s most comprehensive security behaviour database. It maps security behaviours to risk related outcomes.

CybSafe’s new platform measures over 70 specific security behaviours, from implementing strong passwords to deploying Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). This data is not available anywhere else. It helps influence specific security behaviours, providing support to people at the time they need it.

Take the example of security and awareness training informing someone they should update their home router password. The information is usually provided when that person is deep in work, or worse, in the office. By the time that person has returned home, the advice is lost. CybSafe sends well-timed messages on the right channel, in the right way. In this case, it would be an instant message when the person is at home.

It also delivers advanced risk metrics and visual reporting to organisations. All designed to replace ineffective security awareness training and reduce human risk. The risk metrics also help organisations meet their compliance requirements and adhere to strict cyber insurance policy requirements.

The new product features include

• Behaviour Goals: Most people don’t need more training. They need dynamic help and assistance. Goals helps people focus on the important security actions and even reminds them at a time that suits them best
• Behaviour reporting insights: A set of reports that score the security behaviours within an organisation and show how they relate to risk. Administrators can see how the organisation, individual people or groups of people are performing.
• Behaviour event API: A flexible security behaviour event API that ingests security behaviour data from across systems. No two organisations are the same. Most use a combination of tools, both bespoke and off-the-shelf, to solve problems for the business.
• Behaviour-focused learning: Assign learning modules to people based on the security behaviours the organisation is targeting. Most security awareness training covers a variety of topics but has no clear link back to specific security behaviours.
• On demand help: Security guidance and advice people can access whenever they have a security question. Organisations can tailor the guidance to specific users and groups, and also add their own organisation-specific guidance. Having an on-demand set of advice and guidance that they can access when they need it helps people perform the right behaviours and get on with their day job and their lives securely.
• Nudge capability: A low-friction way to deliver ‘Nudges’: notifications and prompts, designed to influence security behaviours. It can be used to deliver ‘Alerts’: an easy way to share general security information with your people quickly.
• Mobile app: All of CybSafe’s features are available via a mobile app. This allows people to access cybersecurity guidance, advice, training and education at various points in their day, not just when they are in front of their computer completing mandated security awareness training. It can also be used by their family at home to help protect everyone.

CybSafe has been measuring the success of its new platform.  

• A CybSafe banking customer found their users are 60% more likely to adopt two-factor authentication.
• After a CybSafe behaviour intervention, 9 out of 10 users no longer exhibit high-risk phishing behaviour.
• 43% of users improve their security confidence after spending less than 45 minutes on the CybSafe platform.
• With the help of CybSafe, an industry regulator has individuals accepting auto-updates 96 out of a 100 times.
• 4 million behaviour measurements made with nudges achieving over 60% success rate.
• On average, users are 58% more confident about cybersecurity after completing CybSafe.

Find out more at https://www.cybsafe.com/ and  https://www.cybsafe.com/behave-series/