Merging attributions: Using communication and technical attribution to drive narrative
In a previous post, I presented a couple of cases in which communicative attribution (responsibility) and technical attribution...
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Security Literacy?
Last week, I started reading into various forms of literacy: digital, financial, information, etc. Reading about the many types of...
Tangled Attribution: Same word, different meanings
Attribution is a linguistic overlap between crisis communication theory and information security. Both of these fields rely on...
Fear appeals: what are they good for?
Fear can be a great motivator but it can also be paralyzing. Scholars have examined the use of fear appeals in advertising and public...
Bit of a detour: Tips from an introverted communicator
Tips and tricks for public speaking from a naturally shy introvert, based on years teaching public speaking.
Advanced soft skills for InfoSec: Efficacy
UPDATE: I gave a talk on this at BSidesDC and Delaware 2017. Here are my slides for that talk. I've wanted to cover efficacy for a while....
Scared of flying but no breach response plan? Risk perception and information security
It’s commonly known that we (humans) are bad a evaluating risk. We're consumed by worry about risks that are unlikely to impact us and...
Communication, not just for crises
Now that I’ve covered the first incident that pulled me into security communication and shown how infosec and crisis communication...
Sony part 2: the juicier bits
Last week, I went through the findings from my textual analysis of the Sony hack in 2014. I originally planned on covering the entire...
Case Study: Sony
My first foray into studying information security crises from a communication perspective was a case study of Sony Pictures...
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