Ganna Pogrebna
Why Do Businesses Pay Ransoms to Cyber Criminals? Irrationality and Compliance versus Common
The Story of One Hotel and Four Ransoms There is a small 4-star hotel in Austrian Alps called Seehotel Jägerwirt. On the one hand, there...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Nov 1, 20205 min read
External Culture, Corporate Values, and Cyber Security of the "New Normal"
For almost a year, our planet has been living in conditions of the global pandemic. This pandemic, caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Sep 19, 20204 min read
Five Major Behavioural Misconceptions about Cybersecurity
We often ask - why is it that cybercriminals succeed despite constant attempts to design better cybersecurity tools? The answer is simple...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Sep 4, 20204 min read
Privacy as an Unfair Advantage: 3 Reasons to Pay Attention to the Recent iPhone Commercial
Only a lazy person did not repost the new iPhone ad released by Apple on September 3, 2020. The ad makes a big bold statement about...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 31, 20208 min read
Over Saturated, Dense, Context-dependent: Cybersecurity and The Market for Personal Data
The development of information and communication technology in the modern economy has created opportunities for businesses to provide...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 29, 20205 min read
Cyberattacks on Your Brand and IP: Technology versus Human Factors
In October 2015, the cyberattack on telecommunications company TalkTalk compromised personal information belonging to more than 150,000...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 23, 20205 min read
The Psychology of "Safe", "Secure" and "Private" in Cyber Spaces
In cybersecurity, we often talk about safety, security, and privacy. Yet, not only we do not fully understand what these terms mean and...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 14, 20205 min read
Why Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Are Now More Dangerous than Ever
If You Can Make It, Cyber Can Break It With the rise of smart systems, which interfere with many aspects of business, cybersecurity...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 9, 20206 min read
Should We Use AI and Machine Decision Making in Cybersecurity?
The field of cybersecurity is increasingly working together with other fields, including, for example, ML automation, the legal...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jul 2, 20204 min read
The Privacy Relativity Principle
We constantly hear that everything involving humans is relative and context-dependent. Naturally, this relativity and context-dependency...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jun 24, 20205 min read
Is the Trade-off between Information Sharing and Cybersecurity Real?
Why the Current Cyber Attacks in Australia highlight the Global Information Sharing Crisis in Cybersecurity On June 19, 2020, the...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jun 17, 20206 min read
Deception As A Cyber Defence Tool
Businesses in many different sectors build their cyber security systems based on an assumption that contemporary cyber security threats...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Jun 2, 20204 min read
Cyber Security of FinTech Part 3: Technology Challenges
In the previous posts on cyber security of FinTech, we identified 4 main categories of challenges which are faced by the FinTech...
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Ganna Pogrebna
May 27, 20204 min read
Why Is It Important to Quantify the Consequences of Potential Cyber Attacks?
Many businesses are struggling with cyber security defence, because it is hard to quantify potential harm from cyber attacks....
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Ganna Pogrebna
May 21, 20204 min read
50 Shades of Online Employment Fraud: What We All Need to Know
The beginning of 2020 brought about an unprecedented global challenge - the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, as of today, it is clear that...
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Ganna Pogrebna
May 15, 20205 min read
Cyber Security of Smart Clothes
Smart clothes is a new trend in the modern fashion industry, where creative geniuses of designers and data scientists come together to...
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Ganna Pogrebna
May 8, 20207 min read
Finding A Balance Between Carrot and Stick: How to Motivate Your Staff to Care About Cyber Security?
Under circumstances when cyber security threats are constantly on the rise, many businesses are thinking about motivating their staff to...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Apr 23, 20203 min read
False Flags: The Art of Making Context-Dependent Cyber Security Decisions
Defining what is "cyber safe" and what is "cyber secure" is not a simple clear-cut task. In different business contexts "cyber safety"...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Apr 17, 20203 min read
The Samurai Approach to Cyber Security: How Does Cyber Risk Fit into the Business Canvas?
It is believed that Alexander the Great once said: “Conquer your fear and you will conquer death”. By this he meant that if you are not...
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Ganna Pogrebna
Apr 15, 20206 min read
Why Proximity and Contact Tracing Projects Need to Engage Behavioural Scientists Now
Many academic data science teams currently work on various proximity and contact tracing app solutions. Several notable projects include...
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