Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
— Pablo Picasso
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
— Pablo Picasso
K Rudolph, CISSPK is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with a degree from Johns Hopkins University.
K believes that security concerns are best addressed by well-prepared and security-savvy individuals. She enjoys being involved in security training, education, motivation, and awareness activities. K's interests include the psychology of security awareness and influence as related to learning and behavior, storytelling, and security awareness metrics.
Author! Author!
K is the primary author of the chapter on security awareness from the "Computer Security Handbook, Vol. 4," published in 2002 (currently being updated to Vol. 5), and is also the author of the chapter on security awareness in the "Handbook of Information Security" published in 2006 (also currently being updated).
K is a named contributor to, and participant in, the work group that created NIST Special Publication 800-16, Information Technology Security Training Requirements: A Role- and Performance-Based Model.
Presentations
Presentations and courses that K delivers are entertaining and effective, because they are based on principles of learning (e.g., start with a bang; make the learning active and goal-based; tie new material to familiar material using examples and analogies; and make the learning story-based, memorable, and fun).
K has presented at conferences that include the Computer Security Institute Security Exchange (CSI SX) Conference in 2008, the New York Cyber Security Conference (2006 and 2007), the Annual CSI Computer Security Conferences (2005, 2007), and Information Assurance and Security Conferences held by FISSEA, FIAC, and eGOV. She has been a speaker for Security Awareness Day events held by the IRS, NRC, NOAA, DLA, IHS, and the Census Bureau.
In addition to speaking, K is also one of the facilitators for the Computer Security Institute's Security Awareness Peer Group, which meets several times a year in various locations. K facilitated the group meeting in San Francisco in July 2008 and will also facilitate the meeting that follows the CSI Conference in November 2008 at National Harbor, Maryland.
Honors and Awards
In March 2006, K was honored by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) as the Security Educator of the Year. Her entries in the annual FISSEA contests for best security awareness motivational item have won in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Also, in 2007, Native Intelligence's OnGuard newsletter won the best security awareness newsletter contest.
Ephemera
K is interested in just about everything, including contact juggling, cookie baking, mind mapping, core work, and photography. In March 2007, K's first time entry in a photography contest took 3rd place in the digital category. The picture is the last one in the third row at the Maryland Renaissance Festival's Photo Gallery.
In December 2007, K's second entry in a photography contest was one of 100 runner-ups in the Parade Magazine and Nature Conservancy's "Celebrate America's Beauty" contest. More than 62,000 entries were received from which one grand prize, one second prize, and 100 runner-ups were chosen.
