Cybersecurity failures can happen to any company and anyone. But tactics that fight human nature increase the chances of failure. The best defense strategies meet employees where they are, measure outcomes, and update accordingly.
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For beleaguered IT and security leaders, there’s some comfort in knowing that even the biggest and best companies fall prey to various hacking and data security attacks. But it’s a very fleeting sense of comfort that quickly fades to uncertainty. Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter are just a few of the many companies impacted by significant security breaches. If it can happen to them, it can happen to any organization.
Every breach has a root cause. And despite the significant investments made in security-related technologies to prevent breaches, the root cause is less likely to be lack of such systems than it is to be people-related. People represent the greatest risk to data security for any organization—employees to be more precise.
And because employees represent up to 85% of data breach risk, it’s critically important for us all to understand how to work with—not against—human nature to build a strong security culture.
The core question then becomes: what are you doing to equip your employees to be effective agents from a security…
