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Join us as we learn more about the human factors associated with cyber security protection and risk. We are pleased to welcome Louisa-Jayne O’Neill and Dr. Emily Winter to lead our conversation. Our host is Dr. Robyn Remke, Co-Director of the Cyber Security EMBA programme.

What is Human about Cyber Security?

When we think about cyber security, images of complicated digital technologies usually come to mind. But, technology is only as effective as the humans who use it. Essentially, cyber security isn’t a technology challenge – it is a people problem!

Louisa-Jayne O’Neill MPA BA(Hons) (Templar Executives):

Louisa-Jayne is an experienced policy and strategy adviser with a career spanning diplomacy, central government, commercial consultancy and the non-profit sector. Her background is in global political risk, managing uncertainty and delivering strategic change. She has provided advice at Ministerial level and to the Boards of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 corporations on political, regulatory and reputational issues in jurisdictions including the UK, EU, India and China. Working closely with the Cyber Security, Information Assurance and Information Governance community, she has also led transformation and outreach programmes in both Government and NGO environments.

Dr Emily Winter (Lancaster University):

A sociologist by background, Emily specialises in the socio-technical aspects of software engineering. Her research centres around the role of human values in software development and tools to support software engineering work. She previously spent a year seconded to Bloomberg, investigating software developers' requirements for an automatic program repair tool.