Going all-in on cybersecurity awareness

Jessica Gallagher

Ryerson University

Jessica Gallagher is a communications professional at Ryerson University. Specializing in the design and implementation of communications campaigns addressing change, reputation and crisis situations, she has previously worked for Intuit in San Diego, Baycrest Health Sciences and the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. Through her career, she has led campaigns on behalf of leaders in IT, finance, pharmacy and long-term care departments, amongst others. Jessica graduated from the University of Toronto and Seneca College.

Brian Lesser

Ryerson University

Brian chairs the benchmarking committee and is Ryerson University’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). Since 1995, Brian has held several positions in Computing and Communications Services including manager, academic computing, and assistant director, application development and support. Brian helped lead Ryerson’s move to Google Apps for Education and the renewal of the university’s online learning tools. He helped develop Ryerson’s first identity management system, establish Ryerson’s e-learning support team and is a founding member of Ryerson’s DMZ steering committee.

Abstract

Moving to a cyber-secure culture means challenging deeply ingrained convictions and changing people’s habits on a large scale. This year, Ryerson University went all in. We simulated five phishing campaigns against 65,120... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Jessica Gallagher (Ryerson University)
  2. Brian Lesser (Ryerson University)

Topic Area

Security: Security should be a culture, not a blocker

Session

D3-S2-04 » Wednesday Session 2 - 4 (09:45 - Wednesday, 20th June, DAC Lower Floor)

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