Digital Wellness for a Connected World
You are a business leader who excels at communicating difficult concepts to your customers. Now you wish someone could explain cyber and privacy risk to you.
When everything looks fine on the surface, it is hard to know what steps you can take now to be compliant and keep your information and reputation safe.
That is why we take a wellness approach to cybersecurity — to help you understand and mitigate your risks before the worst can happen.
Most Cyber-security programs focus on either on compliance or products. But “check the box” programs or “silver bullet” products aren’t enough to protect your data, your balance sheet or your reputation. Digital wellness is about more than risk awareness — it is about understanding the risks as they relate to your business, communicating those risks in a language you understand and developing a strategy that focuses on creating an environment for the right behaviors to mitigate risk. We are here to provide the right plan, tools and guidance to support you on your path to digital health.
We deliver a human-factored approach to Cyber Risk to help you create Business Value
We focus on creating healthy digital behaviors that translate into real improvements in cyber risk from the board room to the break room. We translate the techno-speak of cyber-security and data privacy in a way that helps you appropriate frame its risk in the context of your business. We help you build a program where cyber risk should is an enabler — not an impediment — to business value. And, we offer this all within an efficient three part annual program which takes a human-factored approach to cyber risk and data privacy strategy, governance and behavior design.
Designed Privacy’s 3 Part Annual Digital Wellness Program
Our annual wellness program focuses on 3 key areas of cyber risk: assessment, digital behavior and incidence response.
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We help you quantify your cyber risk in dollar terms, assess your current controls and governance and develop policies and plans of action to ensure compliance and strengthen your overall security posture.
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We focus on changing digital behaviors which lead to better outcomes when identifying and responding to phishing and other social engineering attacks which account for over 92% of malware according to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Report.
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Our effective and efficient cyber incident simulation program enables you to quickly identify, respond and recover from incidents as they occur.
Our Digital Wellness Program provides you with tangible methods to develop and implement effective Cyber Risk strategies, governance and behavior design.
Annual Physical
Comprehensive Risk Assessment & Policy Development
Healthy Habits
Digitally Mindful Behavior Training
Practice
Incidence Response Simulation Programs
Current Thinking From Designed Privacy
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Can Employee Personalities interfere with Security?
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Changes to Employee Training Align with Behavior-Design Principles
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The Human Factors Behind the Robinhood Data Breach
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Your Cybersecurity Controls Might Be Hurting More Than Helping
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3 Ways Experts Fail to Spot Phish
Spotting phish is not always easy. Sure, there are some phish you get that are easy to spot, but over the years scammers have worked hard to create more convincing emails. By more convincingly spoofing common emails we see every day in our inbox and by leveraging...
U.S. May Start Cracking Down on Ransomware Payments
The debate over whether or not to pay the ransomware demand has gone on for a while now. The FBI has long urged businesses to refuse all demands for a ransom payment. And while most businesses aren’t exactly excited to shell out a ton of money to criminals, if their...
Are You Ready?
When it comes to cyber security there is no magic pill. Like any wellness program, digital wellness requires commitment–for the sake of your clients, your employees, your balance sheet and your reputation.
If you are ready to take digital wellness seriously, we know we can help.