Down The Security Rabbithole

In this episode... The Belgian government's internal phishing test has "gone off the rails" a bit Used a legitimate entity to test against Panic and hilarity ensued, but mostly panic http://www.networkworld.com/article/2951514/security/belgian-government-phishing-test-goes-offtrack.html British ICO makes a 180,000 pound fine Disconnect between policy and reality Was anything lost? 2 big failures lead to a fine https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2015/08/ico-fines-nationwide-money-lender-the-money-shop-180-000/ McAfee and Black Hat attendee surveys wildly different Answers you get depend on who and how you ask Interesting answert though... Lesson: The more experience you have, the less confidence? http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/07/21/two_surveys_of_cybersecurity_professionals_show_starkly_different_attitudes.html