Could extraversion make you more vulnerable to social engineering attacks? It's a possibility, as seen in research investigating links between personality traits and vulnerability to cybercrime.
The study, compiled by ESET and the Myers-Briggs company, drills down into the "human factor" responsible for many security breaches. Verizon's DBIR found 20% of security incidents originate from people within an organization; separate data from Dtex shows nearly two-thirds (64%) of insider threats come from people who put the company at risk with careless behavior.
Myers-Briggs' goal in this research is to determine whether individuals' personality traits make them more susceptible to different types of security threats. As part of an ongoing study, it has so far polled 520 respondents who had completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questionnaire. John Hackston, head of thought leadership for the company, argues the MBTI is a practical starting point for personality-based research as many people and businesses already use it for self-development.
If you're not familiar, the MBTI quantifies "best-fit" personality type using four traits: extraversion/introversion (E/I), which shows where you get energy; sensing/intuition (S/N), which indicates how you learn information; thinking/feeling (T/F), which tells how you make decisions; and judging/perceiving (J/P), which indicates whether you prefer a more structured or open-ended lifestyle. For the security-focused study, respondents also answered questions about their jobs, biographical data, cybersecurity habits, phishing experiences, and overall security knowledge.
"Everybody in an organization is an insider risk when it comes to cybersecurity," says Hackston. "We want to look at how MBTI relates to those to give people guidelines … so th ..
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