Cyber Kindness
Cyber Kindness is a global campaign and initiative to tackle bullying, abuse, harassment and toxic behaviour both online and offline. We exist to raise professional standards, promote psychological safety and help build a more respectful, inclusive and resilient world for everyone.
Our Mission
To tackle bullying, harassment, abuse, toxic behavour and pile ons and to make kindness, respect, accountability and psychological safety recognised professional standards for everyone.
Our Vision
A world where people can challenge ideas, contribute, learn and lead without fear, and where kindness is understood as being universal and something that costs nothing to give.
About Cyber Kindness
Cyber Kindness was founded on a simple but urgent belief. We cannot build a safer digital world if the people doing that work are being harmed, silenced or pushed out by toxic behaviour. The digital world is built on trust, yet too many talented people experience bullying, exclusion and abuse that is brushed aside as banter or rigorous debate.
The campaign treats kindness as a professional standard rather than an optional extra. That means challenging poor behaviour and creating spaces where people can ask questions, learn, disagree and grow without being humiliated or attacked. Cyber Kindness brings together individuals, employers, security leaders, event organisers, communities and educators behind one shared message – kindness is a choice, made one keystroke at a time.
What Cyber Kindness Stands For
- Treating every person with respect and dignity, whatever their role, background or route into the industry they occupy.
- Owning our behaviour, learning from mistakes and challenging harm when we see it.
- Making room for lived experience, neurodiversity and difference, because they make the world much stronger.
- Speaking up safely, even when silence would be the easier option.
From individuals to global organisations, the response to toxic culture has to be shared. Cyber Kindness aims to make respectful, accountable and psychologically safe conduct the norm rather than the exception.
Our Objectives
We are working towards a kinder, safer and more professional industry through a focused set of objectives.
Challenge Toxic Behaviours
Name and challenge bullying, harassment, gatekeeping and abuse wherever they appear in the profession.
Promote Psychological Safety
Help people and teams build environments where it feels safe to speak up, ask questions and admit mistakes.
Raise Professional Standards
Treat respectful conduct as part of professionalism, leadership and good security practice.
Support People
Stand with those who are new to, returning to or finding their voice in the cyber security industry.
Equip Organisations
Give employers practical guidance to build respect and safety into how their teams work.
Strengthen Events and Communities
Help communities and event organisers set clear expectations and reduce harm at events and in online spaces.
Build The Evidence
Gather lived experience and data so the conversation moves from anecdote to insight.
Grow A Global Community
Bring together people across the world who want to make the cyber security industry kinder and safer.
Create an inclusive and kind global cyber community
Ensure diversity, equity, and accessibility are embedded in all Cyber Kindness initiatives to strengthen the sector’s talent pipeline.
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