Welcome To Cyber Kindness
Challenge Ideas. Respect People. Raise Standards
Cyber Kindness is a global campaign to tackle bullying, abuse, harassment, gatekeeping and toxic behaviour in cyber security. We are here to raise professional standards, promote psychological safety and build a more respectful, inclusive and resilient industry.
The Case For Cyber Kindness
Abuse is not expertise. Silence is not neutrality. Kindness is not weakness. Cyber security depends on people noticing what others miss, owning mistakes early and challenging assumptions before they become incidents. None of that happens when people are afraid to speak.
How someone is treated decides whether they raise a problem or hide it, keep learning or disengage, stay in the industry or leave. A culture of fear pushes risk into the shadows. A culture of respect brings it into the light. Kindness is part of what makes strong security possible.
Our Core Pillars
Challenge Ideas
Rigour and hard questions are welcome. We debate the work, never the worth of the person doing it.
Respect People
Dignity is not optional. Different routes into the industry and different backgrounds make us stronger.
Raise Standards
Kindness is professional conduct, a leadership responsibility and a measure of a healthy industry.
Take The Cyber Kindess Pledge Now
The Cyber Kindness Pledge is a simple public commitment to a kinder, safer and more respectful cyber security industry. By taking it, you agree to challenge ideas without attacking people, to call out bullying, harassment and exclusion when you see it, and to support those who are new to the field, returning to it or still finding their voice. It is open to individuals and organisations alike, and it takes moments to sign.
The pledge is not about lowering standards or avoiding hard conversations. It is about making clear that high standards and human decency belong together. Every name added sends a signal that toxic behaviour is not the price of working in this industry, and that respect, accountability and psychological safety are things we are willing to stand behind in public.
Our Latest News and Blog
When Claude Fable 5 Went Dark: An AICSA Response
Our Chief Executive and Founder, Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS, logged on this morning as usual. Within minutes it became clear that something was different. Claude Fable 5, one of the frontier AI models that was launched just a couple of days or so ago, was unavailable. Not...
When AI Solves the Problem You Could Not: A Real-World Example of AI as a Practical Tool
There is a great deal of debate about the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence. Much of the conversation, quite rightly, focuses on ethics, governance, risk, and the need for robust human oversight. But today we want to share something a little different:...
AI and Cyber Security: Why the Reality Is More Complicated Than the Headlines
by Nick Bown BEM CSyP FCIIS FBCS Msyl M.ISRM CITP AI is an exciting concept. The recent increase in affordable, cloud computing and public data sets means that more people can try creating models to assist with different tasks. One model which has gathered a lot of...