Collapsology Why Exposed RDP Isn’t Your Biggest Corporate Threat

Conference Talk
Security Culture
Author

errbufferoverfl

Published

September 10, 2021

Modified

June 18, 2025

03 December 2024

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In September 2021, I presented a conference talk entitled “Collapsology: Why Exposed RDP Isn’t Your Biggest Threat.” In this talk, I discussed how to identify cultural threats in a rapidly evolving business landscape and how modern tools can help us detect these threats before they lead to security culture collapse.

Slides

PyConline 2021 - Collapsology: Why your biggest threat isn’t exposed RDP by errbufferoverfl

Security Culture Toolkit

The People-Centric Security Toolkit by Lance Hayden is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Although Lance’s website went down in December 2020, it can still be accessed via the Wayback Machine.

The original toolkit files are available for download below:

Resources

Essential Cybersecurity Science
Josiah Dykstra · ISBN: 978-1-491-92094-7
Amazon · Book Depository · Booktopia · O’Reilly

People-Centric Security: Transforming Your Enterprise Security Culture
Lance Hayden PhD · ISBN: 978-0-071-84679-0
Amazon · Book Depository · Booktopia · O’Reilly

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond · ISBN: 978-0-143-11700-1
Amazon · Book Depository · Booktopia

Security Chaos Engineering
Aaron Rinehart & Kelly Shortridge · ISBN: 978-1-492-08034-3
O’Reilly

References