Jas. Powell

People are the biggest risk to the security of information technology environments: From individual users being socially engineered, complex human-run organizations that are slow to adapt, to inconvenient rules and regulations in a world where marketing to convenience sells big. Even as the threat landscape evolves, there are tools at our disposal we can improve that offer more impactful protection. The greatest cybersecurity threats leverage our human failings and oddities of our culture to create pervasive and massive gaps to our defensive posture, presenting risk to our mission. Some proven ways to combat this involve building adoption of cyber practices into our culture. How can we create opportunities to positively influence our people and processes? Let’s look at why people are the part of the problem, then we’ll examine some techniques to increase adoption of sound security practices. Once we understand the biggest risk, we can have the greatest impact by understanding how to le