Bake Security Into the DNA of Your Product and Improve the Security User Experience with Darren Thomas and Margaret Cunningham

Human-Centered Security

We start the episode discussing a very serious topic: emojis. Then we get back to your regularly scheduled programming.

How would you approach security if you were building something from scratch? How would you address security user experience challenges? Darren Thomas and Margaret Cunningham from Wethos AI talk about how they’ve built security into their product and how cross-disciplinary collaboration helps them improve the security user experience.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How to build security into your product development lifecycle when you need move quickly.
• How to anticipate—and design for—security and privacy concerns.
• Why getting users to the product’s value faster and relates to the security user experience.

Darren Thomas is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Wethos AI, a platform that helps people and teams connect and understand one another to improve both individual and team performance. Darren is also the founding team member and head of product at NumberOne AI. A veteran in product management within the security industry, Darren has previously worked at Tenable and McAfee.

Margaret Cunningham is an experimental psychologist and is Chief Scientist at Wethos AI. Previously, Margaret was Senior Staff Behavioral Engineer, Security & Privacy at Robinhood and Principal Research Scientist for Human Behavior at Forcepoint’s X-Lab. Check out the Margaret’s first interview on the Human-Centered Security podcast (Episode 9).