The Science Behind Metrics, with Andrew Lewis.

It has always been a core part of my research philosophy at the Re-thinking the Human Factor, to go back to the basics. That process of stepping backwards can seem, to some, to be moving in the wrong direction. However, my experience, and the experience of nearly all security professionals who attend our RHF Foundation course, is that the process of going back to basics challenges our assumptions about the language we use when it comes to the Human Factor. This episode, on metrics is one of those.

In this episode, with Andrew Lewis, I met someone who is passionate about the science of metrology, or, in lay person’s terms, the science of measurement. We explore the origins of the science, how measurement has evolved to accommodate changes in human evolution and what lessons information security folks might take away. We do this by drawing on a diverse range of topics from the pyramids and pharaoh’s through to the evolution of the metre, and how these measurements have shape the world around us in the past and present.

If metrics is an area that you are looking to better understand and improve on when it comes to information security awareness, behaviour and culture then I invite you to listen to this episode, and then join me on one of our webinars to find out how we help security professionals develop a new range of metrics for the human factor.