The Human Factor – Security Awareness and Training

We started by discussing how humans are often the weak links in our security models, then progressed to the promise of making them an integral part of our defense mechanisms. Throughout this book, we’ve touched on the idea of reducing the impact of the unpredictability of humans to strengthen our defense strategies. However, we haven’t explored practical procedures to realize that idea. Reflecting on large-scale breaches over the past decade, many such attacks began by exploiting this human factor. In some cases, it was through phishing to compromise an employee with extensive access, while in others, it was simply exploiting the security culture of a company.

In this modern digital age, we cannot afford to overlook any known weakness in any part of our ecosystem. Whether you have perfected the implementation of the zero trust model in your security or have inserted multiple defense controls to thwart attackers...