Cyber Kindness
Cyber Kindness is a global campaign to tackle bullying, abuse, harassment, gatekeeping and toxic behaviour in cyber security. We exist to raise professional standards, promote psychological safety and help build a more respectful, inclusive and resilient industry. You can keep your intro video in this section.
Our Mission
To tackle bullying, harassment, abuse and gatekeeping in cyber security, and to make kindness, respect, accountability and psychological safety recognised professional standards across the industry.
Our Vision
A global cyber security industry where people can challenge ideas, contribute, learn and lead without fear, and where kindness is understood as part of what keeps both systems and people secure.
About the AI and Cyber Security Association (AICSA)
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 industry 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 as clearly as we challenge poor security practice, 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 security control.
What Cyber Kindness Stands For
- Treating every person with respect and dignity, whatever their role, background or route into the industry.
- 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 profession 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.
Meet The Team
The Cyber Kindness campaign was founded in 2026 by Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS, who is also the Chief Executive and Founder of Unity Group Solutions Limited, and the AI and Cyber Security Association.
Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS
Campaign Founder
Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS is the Founder of Cyber Kindness. With over 16 years in cyber security, she is known for a supportive, trauma informed and neuroinclusive approach that rejects fear based framing. She is also the Chief Executive and Founder of Unity Group Solutions Limited and the AI and Cyber Security Association. An accomplished author, journalist and speaker, she uses her platform to raise awareness of key issues in the cyber security industry to shine a light on them.
More information about Lisa can be found on www.lisaventura.co.uk.
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