Origins of Human Risk Management with Flavius Plesu, Hosted by Fred Menachem

In this episode, OutThink Founder & CEO Flavius Plesu sits down with host Fred Menachem to chronicle how his quest to go beyond the limitations of conventional, legacy security awareness training programs led to the emergence of Human Risk Management as a category and the founding of OutThink.

While in industry, Flavius tackled the challenge of increasing engagement with cybersecurity by every employee across an enterprise organization. What he found was what he refers to now as the “Sea of Sameness:” monotonous, uninspiring compliance programs and training modules ill conceived for stimulating genuine interest in employees across the organization.

Flavius recognized the opportunity. He collaborated with other practitioners and subject matter experts to develop a new approach based on personalization, instructional design best practices, and alignment with business objectives: cybersecurity human risk management was born. OutThink, the world’s first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform, was founded to bring that vision to life.

Learn about how OutThink’s relentless pursuit of building a truly excellent human-centric cybersecurity product was inspired by the greatness of Michael Jordan and the sacrifices and commitment of an amazing team.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why Traditional Security Awareness Training Is Flawed: while compliance is important, addressing the human element in cybersecurity warrants a more personalized, impactful approach.

• The Founding of Outthink: How interactions with other industry practitioners demonstrated the need for a game-changing product.

• Cybersecurity and Beyond: Why improving the security of digital life served as a gateway to dreaming about solutions for other significant challenges. -

• Lessons on Leadership and Impact: The powers of a steadfast belief that the status quo can be improved and the perseverance to fully commit to that belief.