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Cyber Leadership and Ethics

Humor: An Unconventional Tool Your Cybersecurity Programs

Thursday, October 30, 2025
9:20 AM - 10:20 AM CT
Location: Davidson CD
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Humor is an unconventional yet powerful tool in cybersecurity for engaging users and enhancing learning in training and awareness programs. It makes content more relatable and memorable, as comical examples are easier to recall than dry facts. By applying humor, organizations can trigger people’s emotions and can disarm severity by taking the edge off serious or scary topics. Cybersecurity training often struggles to engage employees, leading to disengagement and poor retention of security concepts.
What if the missing ingredient is humor?
In this lively and insightful session, it will be demonstrated how incorporating humor into security awareness programs can lower psychological defenses, enhance recall, and expose irrational decision-making, without making users feel embarrassed or resistant.

Learning Objectives:

  • Lowering Defenses: Humor helps people relate and be more receptive to new concepts in cybersecurity training and programs
  • Enhancing Recall: Humor increases interest and makes information more memorable and easier to recall later for a cybersecurity culture.
  • Exposing Irrationality: Satire and parody can highlight irrational or inconsistent thinking in a non-threatening way to your users.