Human Risk Management (HRM) is a user-focused security paradigm aimed at empowering businesses to comprehend, reduce, and monitor employee cyber risks without compromising budget, staff productivity, or IT resources. The approach transcends traditional security awareness training by offering a full-circle solution to transform humans into a robust defence line against evolving cyber threats.
As you delve into this concept, it’s important to clarify what Human Risk doesn’t entail. Unlike the daring individual depicted in the image below, scaling a towering building and facing physical danger, Human Risk in our context doesn’t involve putting oneself in physical harm’s way. Instead, it zeroes in on the cyber risks that emerge from human actions or oversights within an organisational setting.
