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Digital Safety as a Life Skill: From Fear to Agency
Digital safety isn’t just a technical issue. It’s a life skill. This interactive Virtual Leadership Roundtable explores how small, everyday habits can reduce online risk, strengthen resilience, and help individuals move from fear to confidence in the digital world.
Drawing on real-world threat intelligence and behavioral science, speakers will share practical strategies for recognizing risk, building safer digital habits, and creating lasting behavior change at work and at home.
Attendees will learn:
- How to better understand personal digital risk
- Why fear-based messaging often fails
- The daily habits that most reduce digital risk
Moderated by Tiziana Barrow, Founder of SaferShift with Kurtis Minder, Author of Cyber Recon, this live session is designed for leaders across all sector to exchange perspectives, challenge assumptions, and surface practical insights with peers navigating the same shifts.
Date & Time:
📅Tuesday, June 2
🕒12:00-1:00 PM EST
💻 Virtual
The Cyber Guild’s Virtual Leadership Roundtables bring together national leaders and expert voices for candid, high-value conversations at the intersection of digital and cyber security, workforce, and emerging technology. Don’t miss out on these powerful cyber leadership meetups!
Tiziana Barrow is a go-to-market strategist and former cybersecurity practitioner with more than 30 years of experience across threat intelligence, digital risk, operational technology, and supply chain resilience.
Her career bridges hands-on technical work with market intelligence, behavioral analysis, and the narrative frameworks that drive adoption and change. She is known for translating complex security and technology concepts into strategies that resonate with both practitioners and executive decision-makers.
Today, Tiziana’s work focuses on the intersection of human behavior and digital risk. She advocates for reframing cybersecurity as digital safety, applying storytelling and behavioral science to help organizations create lasting security habits and reduce human risk.
She is the founder of SaferShift, an initiative focused on making digital safety as instinctive as buckling a seat belt.
Kurtis Minder is the founder of GroupSense, a leading provider of digital risk solutions. He built a robust cyber reconnaissance operation that protects some of the world’s largest enterprises and government organizations. Having exited GroupSense in 2025, he now consults for cybersecurity technology companies and serves as a cyber board advisor.
Kurtis is a recognized expert in ransomware response, having served as the lead negotiator in some of the largest ransomware, breach, and data extortion cases globally. His experiences and insights are captured in his book, Cyber Recon, which explores the high-stakes world of cyber threat actor engagement and ransomware response.
He holds a FEMA certification in Critical Infrastructure Protection and actively contributes to public good projects. He is the program lead for RAPIDS, a regional initiative based in Grand Junction, Colorado, focused on measuring and managing the health of the Colorado River through innovative technology and data collaboration.
Kurtis’ book, “Cyber Recon: My Life in Cyber Espionage and Ransomware Negotiation” (Wiley, 2025), is an exposé of the private cyber espionage industry and the economic impact of cyberattacks on the US economy.
Kurtis’s work has been featured in major media outlets, including The New Yorker, Fortune, VICE, WIRED, CNN, and Good Morning America, among others.
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