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Security Awareness Insider Podcast

Verena Zimmermann and Nico Ebert have been interviewed for the May episode of the Security Awareness Insider Podcast. Together with Katja Dörlemann from Switch and Marcus Beyer from Swisscom they discussed what Security can learn from Safety (and the other way round) .
Link to podcast episode: https://www.securityawarenessinsider.ch/
Honorable Mention for "Beyond Deterrence"

The article Beyond Deterrence: A Systematic Review of the Role of Autonomous Motivation in Organizational Security Behavior Studies by Xiaowei Chen, Lorin Schöni, Verena Distler and Verena Zimmermann that has been published at the ACM CHI 2025 Conference received an Honorable Mention Award.
Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713122
Presentations CHI’25 in Yokohama/Japan

In May, Lorin Schöni presented two papers on phishing training at CHI’25 in Yokohama, Japan, titled “It’s a Match – Enhancing the Fit between Users and Phishing Training through Personalisation” and “Stop the Clock – Counteracting Bias Exploited by Attackers through an Interactive Augmented Reality Phishing Training.”
Jens Opdenbusch our visiting researcher

Jens Opdenbusch is our visiting researcher from May to June 2025. He is a Ph.D. student in IT Security at Ruhr University Bochum/Germany and the CASA Graduate School. In Bochum, Jens is working for Human-Centred Security.
His research interests primarily lie in the challenges that IT Security practitioners face within organizations. During his research stay, Jens is collaborating with Neele Roch to kick off a joint project at the intersection of both their research interests.