Cybersecurity and Safety: A Clash or a Union of Cultures? with Claire Blackett

What?

During the last few years, events and breaches connected with cybersecurity have on a global scale shown why cybersecurity is something that needs to be handled and managed within organisations. With the rise of AI, the risk of accidently being fooled and attacked is also constantly increasing. Furthermore, with new directives from the EU such as NIS2 and DORA, legislation is soon implemented that will have an impact on how organisations are handling and aiming to achieve a common level of cybersecurity.

Much like in the early days of safety culture, some surveys relating to cybersecurity events state that between 75% and 95% of the causes leading to the breach are labelled as “human error”. Some organisations have therefore started to take steps toward implementing a cybersecurity culture with the aim of promoting desired cybersecurity behaviors. Some of these organisations also have an aim and a process of implementing a parallel safety culture relating to occupational health and safety.

But are the aims and goals of cybersecurity culture and safety culture able to be combined or are they conflicting?

Not much research has been done on cybersecurity culture, but SÄKU is happy to invite Claire Blackett, senior researcher at SÄKU member Risk Pilot, to present her thoughts and preliminary results on the topic. During the autumn of 2024, Claire and Asreen Rostami, senior researcher in Technologies for Interaction at the Swedish state owned research institute RISE, are working on drafting a white paper on the subject..

This webiar aims to be a first stepping stone in introducing this important subject to SÄKU members and the potential risks that might happen if not we learn from the lessons of safety culture implementation when addressing cybersecurity issues. We believe that you as safety professionals have a lot to add to the cybersecurity discussion, and the webinar will feature lot of interaction and discussions with the participants. Please feel free to also invite your colleagues working with cybersecurity topics in your company to this webinar. Together we think we can start a broad discussion on this subject regardless of sector and perhaps open up the possibilities of further research.

The webinar will be held in English and be recorded and later published at the SÄKU Member Page.

Warm welcome!

About Claire Blackett

Dr. Claire Blackett is a Senior Human Factors Consultant at Risk Pilot in Sweden. Claire has almost 20 years’ experience working as a Human Factors specialist in both industry and research, including 11 years as a research scientist at the Halden Reactor Project in Norway. Claire has a background in root cause analysis for accident investigation, with a PhD in this topic. She has worked primarily in the nuclear industry throughout her career, providing human factors and human reliability analysis support to nuclear safety cases, as well as conducting human factors engineering assessments and providing input to event investigations at commercial nuclear sites. Claire also has experience from the petroleum, maritime, rail, healthcare, and process industries, and continues to work in these domains today.

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