Jenny Radcliffe
Social Engineering Specialist, Authority on Human Risk & Trust
Jenny Radcliffe is best known for revealing how security fails through people rather than technology. A specialist in social engineering, she examines how trust, routine, and organisational assumptions are exploited to bypass controls that appear robust on paper. Her work focuses on the human decisions that create exposure, not through negligence, but through normal behaviour in complex systems.
Her perspective reframes cyber risk as a design problem. Jenny helps leaders understand how authority, politeness, urgency, and cultural norms can be manipulated, and why security strategies often collapse when they conflict with how people actually work. She shows where organisations unintentionally reward compliance over judgement, and how small behavioural cues can open significant risk.
Her talks are intelligent, engaging, and sharply observed. They focus on how leaders design systems, processes, and cultures that support questioning, verification, and resilience, without eroding trust or operational flow.
Signature Keynotes
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Why people are targeted before systems.
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How normal behaviour becomes risk.
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The gap between policy and reality.
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Building security that works with people.
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Changing systems, not blaming individuals.
The Radcliffe Effect
Human risk stops being underestimated and becomes intelligently designed for.
Audiences leave ready to:
Understand how social engineering exploits trust and routine
Recognise behavioural vulnerabilities embedded in processes
Design controls that support judgement, not blind compliance
Reduce risk created by authority bias and urgency
Build cultures where questioning is normal, not penalised
Why Book Jenny
Jenny Radcliffe brings rare clarity to the behavioural mechanics of security failure. Her insight resonates with boards and executives responsible for risk, trust, and organisational integrity in environments where people, not systems, are the primary attack surface.
Book a speaker who reframes security as a question of human design, not human weakness.
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