Nicki Doble
Executive Advisor – Cybersecurity & Transformation
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Nicki is a global transformation and cyber resilience executive advising financial services executive teams. A repeat Black Hat speaker, she turns security transformation into clear, actionable playbooks any C-suite leader can use.
Speaker sessions
Building the Human Firewall: Neuroscience-Backed Nudges That Change Security Behaviour
AI has made social engineering attacks highly sophisticated, and rogue agents have yet again widened the threat landscape. Role-based training, posters, and annual compliance training don’t create automatic, resilient behaviours under pressure. Attackers, and now AI-accelerated workflows, exploit attention, stress, and habit. Where is our Human in the Middle when it comes to security defence? My briefing will show how to engineer secure behaviour using neuroscience and behavioural science. I will cover why techniques such as habit formation, cognitive load, and just-in-time nudges, delivered via embedded microlearning (email, chat, SSO, ticketing), are amongst your best methods of defence. I will translate proven behavioural models (spacing, B=MAP/COM-B) into production patterns that reduce phishing susceptibility, shorten the time to report, and improve MFA/task success without adding friction. Because modern workflows increasingly include AI assistants, we’ll also cover a practical slice on teaching staff to recognise off-policy or rogue AI behaviour (scope creep, credential grabs, unusual data pulls) using the same behaviour-change toolkit. I will cite real-life examples of how, when fear-based messaging is replaced with clear, compassionate prompts, it reduces shame and increases action. I will share how to use behavioural science to build psychological safety and social proof across the organisation, shifting the company toward an enterprise-wide security culture by embedding secure behaviours into day-to-day work.
- 16:20
- Thu
- 04 Dec
Stage:
Briefings 2
Sessions Type:
Presentation