Perry Carpenter - Solving the Security Awareness Puzzle: A Practical Guide to Shaping Your Organization’s Security Behavior, Attitudes, and Culture

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 8
6. Chapter 9

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 8
8. Chapter 9

Perry Carpenter

Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors

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For Siobhan, Sage, and Lily: the best reasons imaginable to help build a more secure planet. Oh - and thanks for putting-up with all the puns

Perry Carpenter, C|CISO, MSIA currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.

Perry has been a recognized thought leader on security awareness and the human factors of security for well-over a decade. His broad background makes him uniquely positioned to understand nuances of awareness strategy that can be elusive. Perry's security awareness-related experiences spans multiple pivotal roles: from being a general employee receiving awareness training; to being an awareness program manager running complex global programs; to being the primary market analyst advising security leaders about awareness trends, success practices, and vendor platforms; to now helping lead the efforts of the world's largest and most successful security awareness and simulated phishing platform. Perry draws from this experience, along with cutting-edge research in the fields of marketing, communication, behavior science, and organizational culture management to inform his perspectives and advice for creating awareness programs that are transformational.

Before joining KnowBe4, Perry led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research (NYSE:IT), in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. With a long career as a security professional and researcher, Carpenter has broad experience in North America and Europe, providing security consulting and advisory services for many of the world's best-known brands.

Perry holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University in Vermont and is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).

You can connect with Perry on LinkedIn at: https://linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter.

Matt Stamper, CISA, CISM, CIPP/US, ITIL, brings a broad, multi-disciplinary understanding of cybersecurity best practices. His diverse domain knowledge spans IT service management (ITSM), cybersecurity, cloud services, control design and assessment (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA-HITECH), privacy (GDPR, CCPA), enterprise risk management (ERM), and IT risk management (ITRM).

Matt excels at conveying complex cybersecurity and IT concepts to boards of directors, executive management, as well as professional service providers. His executive and board-level experience with managed services, cybersecurity, data centers, networks services, and ITSM provide a unique perspective on the fast-changing world of enterprise IT, IoT, and cloud services.

Stamper was a Research Director within the Security and Risk Management Practice at Gartner (NYSE:IT). During his time at Gartner, Stamper met with CISOs and CIOs across the globe to address cybersecurity program development, security incident response, and other security topics. Matt was the co-author on the Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management Solutions and wrote research on incident response and covered breach and attack simulation technologies. Matt is also the co-author of the CISO Desk Reference Guide (Volumes 1 & 2).