Educate your staff or get hacked. Stories from a Social Engineer with Jenny Radcliffe, The People Hacker – Podcast Episode 84

Let's talk about digital identity with Jenny Radcliffe, The People Hacker. In episode 84, ethical burglar for hire, Jenny Radcliffe, joins Oscar to discuss the importance of educating your staff to help protect your company against social engineering attacks - including the main vulnerabilities that social engineers exploit, how individuals and businesses can protect themselves online and how user authentication technologies can help, as well as how ransomware links to social engineering. "Two factor or multi-factor, in any form, is always going to be a good thing. It's better than, like you say, one thing, which can be found out or hacked like a password." Jenny Radcliffe is a world-renowned Social Engineer, hired to bypass security systems through a mixture of psychology, con-artistry, cunning and guile. A "burglar" for hire and entertaining educator, she has spent a lifetime talking her way into secure locations, protecting clients from scammers, and leading simulated criminal attacks on organisations of all sizes in order to help secure money, data and information from malicious attacks. Jenny has received many industry awards and was most recently inducted into the prestigious InfoSec Hall of Fame in 2022. She has also been named as one of the top 30 female cyber security leaders in 2022 by SC Magazine, one of the top 25 Women in Cyber by IT Security Guru, and as a Top 50 Women of Influence in Cyber in 2019. She was nominated in seven categories for the 2021 Security Serious Awards in 2021 including the prestigious “Godmother of Security” award in 2020 winning the “Most Educational Security Blog" for her show The Human Factor podcast interviewing industry leaders, bloggers, experts, fellow social engineers and con artists about all elements of security and preventing people from becoming victims of malicious social engineering. Jenny is a sought-after global keynote speaker at major conferences and corporate events and is a multiple TEDx contributor. A go-to guest expert on the human element of security, scams, cons and hacks, she has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, as well as online media and traditional press outlets, and helps create unique content for international brands and organisations. An experienced podcast host, panel chair and interviewer she hosted the live weekly cyber talkshow "Teiss Talk" for two years and is frequently asked to chair live events for clients both virtually and in-person. Jenny's upcoming book "People Hacker - Confessions of a Burglar for Hire" will be released in February 2023, published by Simon and Schuster. Connect with Jenny on LinkedIn or Twitter. We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure! Go to our YouTube to watch the video transcript for this episode.