Let's Stop Admiring the Human Factor Problem in Cybersecurity

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Presented at SecureWorldKansasCity 2019 by

Calvin Nobles

Ninety-five percent of all cyber-attacks are human enabled. Organizations continue to fail at addressing human factors in cybersecurity due to a lack of education and appreciation for human factors as a science. With the increasing spending on technology to safeguard organizations’ critical networks, systems, and data, cybercriminals are circumventing defense-in-depth architectures to target humans, the weakest link. An existing fallacy is that technology will prevent data breaches, ransomware attacks, or cyber-attacks. In fact, integrating new technology creates unintended consequences that increase vulnerabilities. These technologically-induced vulnerabilities are human-enabled highlighting a lack of appreciation for human factors in cybersecurity–let’s reduce human-enable errors