Training The Human Firewall - Reanna Schultz
Channel: BSidesKC
Date: 2022-10-23

Training The Human Firewall - Reanna Schultz

Phishing is one of the leading cyber attacks across the world, which results in numerous social engineering training exercises to train average users to defend against these attacks. This discussion focuses on research that took a pool of users with three different phishing campaigns. Each campaign progressively has a phish that should be more advanced to spot than the previous phish presented. This research shows the psychological reasoning to why a user will interact with a phish, regardless of the educational awareness. Attendees will learn why having a 0% click and 100% report rate is unrealistic. Attendings will additionally learn how to grow and mature an organization's phishing pool.

Reanna Schultz (Cyber Security Analyst III at Garmin)
Reanna Schultz attended the University of Central Missouri (UCM) and graduated in 2018 with her Bachelor's of Science in Cybersecurity: Secure Software Development and later graduated with her Master's of Science in Cybersecurity: Information Assurance. While being in the industry, Reanna has been exposed to numerous SANS hosted classes. Reanna currently volunteers with the Girl Scout of America to provide STEM education and to expose cyber fundamentals to the next generation. Reanna also provides her industry expertise by doing guest speaker talks for numerous colleges across the Midwest to cyber and computer science students. Reanna currently works as a Cyber Security Analyst at Garmin and directly reports out of their Security Operations Center. In her free time, Reanna enjoys eating at Chipotle and reading science fiction books.