Online Safety and Privacy | Min Read How Awareness Practitioners Are Crushing It: Takeaways from Convene: Boston's Share & Brag We asked real cybersecurity professionals to share what is working for them â learn free tips from the Convene: Boston 2026 Share & Brag session! What happens when you put a room full of training and awareness professionals together and ask them to share whatâs working? It's not the start of a cybersecurity joke. It was the premise of Share & Brag, a popular session at Convene: Boston on August 13. Hosted again by Jenn deBerge, the director of the Fusion Center at Mastercard and the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at the National Cybersecurity Alliance, this session is always a highlight of every Convene conference. In Boston, the prompt was simple: "What is one thing your organization is doing in your security awareness or human risk program that you think others should be doing too â and why is it working?" After hearing the prompt, a loud convening commenced â exactly what we like to see at Convene. Attendees discussed their ideas at their tables, then selected people to share their favorites with the larger group. The result was a wide-ranging collection of practical ideas from phishing simulations and security champions to community outreach and executive exercises. But several themes began emerging across the different approaches people shared and bragged about. Make cybersecurity a shared responsibility Several attendees described ways they are bringing cybersecurity outside their department. One financial services organization uses tabletop exercises with teams across the business. The goal isn't just to test the organization's response to an incident. It also helps other departments better understand what the cybersecurity team does and why its work matters. Another organization has a program that pairs engineers outside