Darnley's Cyber Café
Darnley's Cyber Café is your go-to cybersecurity and IT security podcast, available everywhere you listen. Each episode, we brew up fresh conversations on cybersecurity, IT security, business, technology, and the geopolitical forces shaping our digital world: from data breaches and ransomware to privacy, surveillance, and emerging threats.
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Darnley's Cyber Café
The Training Trap: Why Cyber Awareness Isn't Making You Safer
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Your organization spent money on cybersecurity training. Someone still clicked the link.
In this episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, we break down why most security awareness programs fail to change behaviour, and why the gap between knowing about a threat and actually being ready for it is exactly where attackers operate.
Drawing on research from ETH Zurich, real-world breach data, and the 2025 Marks & Spencer cyberattack, this episode unpacks the compliance checkbox model, the rise of AI powered phishing, and the vishing surge that most organizations are completely ignoring. What you can do about it today, whether you're running a security team or a five-person business.
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