Nobel Prize-winning novelist Anatole France famously opined: "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly." As a species, we're innately designed with — as far as our awareness extends — the highest, most profound levels of intellect, knowledge, and insight in our vast, infinite universe. But this does not equate to omniscience or absolute precision.
Humans are by no stretch of the imagination perfect. We feel pressured, we get stressed, life happens, and we end up making mistakes. It's so inevitable, in fact, that it's essentially hardwired into our DNA. And for better or worse, this aspect of human nature is both perfectly natural and resolutely expected. In most cases, the human predilection to screw up is evened out by a dogged pursuit of rectification. But in cybersecurity terms, this intent and journey happens all too slowly; this is a realm where simple mistakes can result in dire consequences at the blink of an eye.
To place this into context, a simple hack or breach can result in the loss of billions of dollars; the complete shutdown of critical infrastructure such as electric grids and nuclear power plants; the leak of classified government information; the public release of unquantifiable amounts of personal data. In many instances, these all too real "hypotheticals" — the collapse of economies, the descent of cities into chaos, the compromise of national security or the theft of countless identities — can all potentially be pinpointed back to human error around cybersecurity.
With so much at stake, it's not unsurprising that many CISOs are not confident in their employees' abilities to safeguard data. That's because most of the cybe ..
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