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How do you make cybersecurity understandable to people who do not work in it?
I work in cybersecurity at a US health system, where the work involves cybersecurity engineers, network teams and caregivers.
In early 2025, I made comic strips on cybersecurity topics, so that busy caregivers could understand a topic by glancing at a strip for a minute or two. I have also scripted and produced videos for an internal cybersecurity platform. The work page says what that involved.
What follows are my views; I have not put them into practice in my organization. Most enterprises treat cyber awareness as a drill; they keep pushing training and phishing drills. Phishing drills are okay, but pushing training only overburdens people. What I believe in is a careful, thoughtfully designed skills survey, and requesting training completion based on role, skill level and necessity.
For traditionally run awareness programs, this is much harder to do. The people with those responsibilities will keep doing what they have been doing: declaring October cyber awareness month, conducting some fun events, and pushing some emails, sessions and trainings. I am surprised that people do not put more thought into the structural thinking I am trying to champion.
I write about making cybersecurity understandable to people who do not work in it.
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Cybersecurity education · US health system · 2025
In early 2025, I made comic strips on cybersecurity topics for busy caregivers, with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s image generation for the panels and Figma for the dialogue.
Video · US health system · 2025
I scripted and produced product videos for an internal cybersecurity platform, from storyboard to motion graphics in Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Ghostwriting · LoginRadius
I turned in-house expertise on data privacy and passwordless authentication into long-form eBooks for customer education. They were published under an executive’s name, so they are not linked here.
Article · LoginRadius Engineering Blog · 2024
Article · LoginRadius Engineering Blog · 2021
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