The Human Factor in Cybersecurity

Both Human Factors in Cybersecurity articles show me with different views it makes me has a conclusion. For the cybersecurity discipline, we can’t deny that the human factor affects it. The Human factor can be the weakness in Cybersecurity from the human behavior and error that difficult for efficiency control such as sharing information, breaching data from own employee intentional, etc., it is vulnerable to security systems and be the one way to make the cyber threat or hacker compromise the system, it can make your organization or business lose a lot of money and reputation (Capone, 2018). Even, the human factor can be harmful to the security system and should make it relate to the system as little as possible, the security system also needs the human factor in the process to drive it. It can analyze psychology and the behavior of the cyber threat to know the potential of the way they will use to attack the system and know more about how to make it safer to the victim that already was attacked by cyber threat in the future. Moreover, the human factor can make the network between the organization from the communication and exchange information about cybersecurity to make their own organization have efficiency prepared when it has a threat happening that will be a benefit to them both security and connection. Anyway, cybersecurity threats happen to involve human psychology more than not involve human psychology (Cyberbitsetc.,n.d.).

So, the human factor is important to cybersecurity and needs to make the standard for preventing the error that must happen someday. If I have a limited budget, first I will manage it by dividing the budget into four mains equally portions 1. For the employees training that makes standard training to employees that make them know everything that relates to the security of the organization such as policy, process, caution, etc. because the employee is the fundamental of the organization if the employee knows how to cope the problem, it will make the organization also can cope the problem that may happen in the future at the same time. 2. To maintain the quality of the employees for the security by verifying or testing employees every annual year (or more frequently) in an organization because even the organization has the training program that makes the standard for a security system, but humans are uncertain and usually change day by day so the organization should put the budget to maintain the employees’ quality as the time employees complete the training program. 3. To maintain the efficiency of technology and do research for the new technology that will be essential in the future and use human as less as possible because the organization always need the technology that is ready to use when the problem happening and always should lead one step to the cyber threat so the organization should buy or look out to the new technology that can eliminate the weak spot that can happen from the human error. 4. To create a specific team for communication to other organizations and recovery when the problem already happened because we know that all technology isn’t automated that also need humans to drive to make something and when it has human to do something it also has an error at the same time so the organization needs to have the team that mitigates the problem and makes sure this problem will not or difficult to happen in the future. So, this is how I will balance the limited budget when relating to the human factor and security (training and technology).

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