Melissa G.

🌍 Germany is becoming a primary target in Europe’s data leak landscape @channel New research from Google Cloud shows that the data leak activity affecting Germany grew by 92% in 2025 compared to 2024, significantly outpacing the European average. (👉 source) This isn’t just more volume. It reflects a shift in how attackers operate: faster, more distributed and increasingly focused on Germany as a high-value target. What’s also clear: risk isn’t evenly distributed. Different company sizes, industries and ecosystems are exposed in very different ways, yet many organisations still treat data leaks as a generic threat. 💭 Curious to hear your perspective:

💡The 19-Day Gap: Why Your Human Defence Is Always Playing Catch-Up @channel We’re about to release our new Adaptive Defence Playbook - based on insights from 1,000+ security leaders - and one benchmark stood out immediately:

On average, organisations take 19 days to update their human defence after a new threat is identified.

That means a threat can already be known internally while employees are still operating on outdated guidance - like issuing a weather warning after the storm has already hit.⚡ In a world where AI-driven attacks iterate in seconds, three weeks is a serious exposure window. What’s more surprising: Our data shows that 11% of organisations can measure their security awareness levels but change absolutely nothing as a result. It suggests a massive disconnect between gathering human risk data and having the agility to act on it. 👀 Before we share the full report with the community, we’d love your perspective:

And how does that 19-day average compare to your reality? 💭

💥New Name. Same Community. Bigger Ambition. @channel Many of you joined us over the years at the Human Firewall Conference (HuFiCon), Europe’s leading cybersecurity event focused on the human factor. 👉 This year, it’s evolving: Signal, the Security Summit by SoSafe Why the change? Because the role of the human factor in security has grown beyond awareness alone. Today, it’s about understanding signals early:

That’s exactly what this community already does, and Signal is built to take it further. 🌍 We’re also going international: 🇫🇷 Paris, May 28, 2026 🇩🇪 Cologne, November 18, 2026 (now a one-day event) I’ll share a short video below with a first look. Early RSVP is now open: https://sosafe-awareness.com/events/signal-security-summit/

Curious, who’s planning to join us this year? 🙋

🎬 Hackproof Hangout #3 – Recap @channel What an inspiring session! Thank you to everyone who joined our Hackproof Hangout on Monday. It was great to see the community come together again and engage in such meaningful conversations. In celebration of International Women’s Day, we invited Andrea Szeiler for an impulse session on women in cybersecurity. She shared reflections on stereotypes women still face in the industry, the importance of mentorship and some truly inspiring personal experiences from her career. 💜 Christian R. (Dr. C) also gave us insights into his school awareness project, highlighting how important it is to bring cybersecurity awareness into classrooms and start educating the next generation early. 📚 To support those who would like to get involved themselves, we’re sharing the ready-to-use materials with you: • Slide deck • Lesson plan • Available in German and English Feel free to use them if you’d like to bring cybersecurity awareness into schools in your own network.

The slide deck is also available in PowerPoint format in German and English to view or copy slides for your own sessions.

🥨 What’s next? The next chance to connect is right around the corner! As we’re planning our upcoming roadshow event on July 11 in Munich, we’d love to give you the opportunity to become an active voice and take the stage alongside fellow peers.

Interested in speaking? Apply through our speaker interest form and benefit from an exclusive mentoring session with Dr. C on top of the experience.

Stay vigilant and see you all soon!