Issue 1 2020

32 CORPORATE VISION / Issue 1 2020 , 91% of cyber breaches reported in the previous year started at the Human Layer! Since its inception, HumanFirewall ® has provided businesses with the tools to train their employees to detect and protect against global phishing attacks. Recently, we caught up with HumanFirewall’s Co-Founder, Ed Tucker to find out more. The problem statement that you’ve shared is in itself an appalling statistic. Can you elaborate on the problem statement and tell us how your solution addresses it? “The problem is twofold. Firstly, we aim to address the problem of human weakness in cybersecurity. Through no fault of their own, humans are the easiest target in the attack chain. Over 93% of data breaches reported in the last year had their source at the human layer. HumanFirewall ® drives a positive psychological and behavioural shift in the human layer of the organisation. To change humans from the weakest link into a core control, where one vigilant user can protect the entire enterprise. This, in turn, creates a second problem of increased demand upon security operations teams. Our solution utilises automation and orchestration to alleviate the demanding overhead and enable accelerated fact-based decision and remediation at the touch of a button. HumanFirewall® automatically provides security operations teams with all the information required to respond to the threat. Process optimisation through automation and orchestration coupled with a tangible uplift in awareness and preparedness is the very heart of HumanFirewall ® .” Dec19094 Looking ahead to what the future holds for the firm, the team at HumanFirewall will continue to go the extra mile to ensure that they deliver a service which not only meets the requirements but also exceeds expectations. Ultimately, the HumanFirewall ® team hope to further cement themselves in the industry as game-changers, after receiving countless accolades which highlight their success. With a number of offices worldwide, HumanFirewall ® utilises basic behavioural psychology, which ensures that employees are hardened to detect and protect against phishing. Going into further detail, can you inform us of the supporting validation that you have that demonstrates that your product is ready for the market? “HumanFirewall ® currently has more than 200 customers globally across all industries and is growing rapidly ever since its existence. Our customers include global industry leaders in Retail, Banking, Insurance and E-Commerce sectors. We have testimonials from our customers terming HumanFirewall ® to be the “best in class” product as we constantly innovate and add fresh content to our product on a monthly basis. “In addition to this, HumanFirewall ® has also raised a seed funding from Infosec Ventures, a UK based cybersecurity venture fund, focused on solving big problems.” You mentioned being the “best in class”, please could you tell us more about what differentiates your solution from others on the market today? “Phishing-based security awareness and training platforms can be termed as thermometers offering a point in time reference to preparedness. They treat symptoms of risk. HumanFirewall ® on the other hand, attacks the disease, being fully designed to remediate real cyber-attacks alongside driving measurable uplifts in awareness and preparedness across the enterprise. • Gamified Learning Approach : Our researchers and previous reports state that the user engagement on security awareness training was very low. Hence we’ve transformed our training content into videos (multi-lingual), quizzes and easy SCORM compliant material that focuses on user-friendliness and interest. • Remediation of Real Attacks : Our dashboard empowers employees to report suspicious activity and enable the administrator to take action by going through threat intel automatically provided by the dashboard and save the entire organisation in seconds. Automation by setting certain rules on the dashboard can also be done. • HumanSOAR : A 360-degree protection can be achieved as HumanFirewall broadcasts the threat intel to all other cybersecurity investments done by the organisation like Network Firewalls, Anti Virus, SIEM, Email Security Gateways and ensures that malicious entity is not trying to attack from any other channel. • Federation in the CyberSecurity Community : As soon as the dashboard picks up threat intel, it is federated amongst all our customers and cybersecurity communities as a blacklisted source to safeguard them through precautionary measures beforehand. Company: HumanFirewall ® Web Address: www.humanfirewall.io