Evolving Cybersecurity Strategies: Uniting Human Risk Management and Security Awareness Training
Organizations are increasingly turning their attention to human-focused security approaches, as two out of three (68%) cybersecurity incidents involve people. Threat actors are shifting from targeting networks and systems to hacking humans via social engineering methods, living off human errors as their most prevalent attack vector. Whether manipulated or not, human cyber behavior is leveraged to gain backdoor access into systems. This mainly results from a lack of employee training and awareness about evolving attack techniques employed by malign actors.
Human risk management (HRM) and security awareness training (SAT) have grown to become indispensable elements in resolving cyber threats. Although SAT has long been the foundation for employee security training, HRM adds data-driven assessment of security behaviors and quantification of human-enabled risk to help mitigate cybersecurity threats.
Recognizing the Distinctions Between HRM and SAT
