From Infodump to Transformation: Re-imagining Digital Security Training
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BSides Seattle 2026 · Day 1 · Track 2
Isabelle, a security and privacy consultant with a background in public health education who has trained thousands of people over 15 years, delivered an interactive session challenging the security community to fundamentally rethink how it teaches digital security to non-technical audiences. Drawing on their dual background -- nonprofit public health work (HIV prevention, intimate partner violence education) and cybersecurity practice -- Isabelle argues that the standard corporate training model (death by PowerPoint, checklist compliance, tool evangelism) fails community members and at-risk populations who need security knowledge most urgently.
AI review
A community education and pedagogy talk with zero technical security content. Isabelle presents Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and neuroscience-backed teaching tactics applied to security awareness training for non-technical audiences. While potentially valuable for community educators, this contains no vulnerabilities, no tools, no exploits, no technical research of any kind.