Title: The Human Factor in Cybersecurity (Training to be better in cybertechnology.)
Bluf:
If I had a small budget, I’d put most of it into training people. Technology is a great
investment, but we need to put more time into making sure we are protecting people’s
personal information.
Write-Up:
The way I look at it most of the cyber problems start with people not knowing how to work
technology. A lot of people give hackers access to them to strew them up because they
click links that aren’t links and end up giving up information they didn’t need to. It doesn’t
matter how many firewalls and software in the world; you should always be trained to work
with or without them.
From the articles I read about this issue it made it clear that people are uneducated and
that’s a reason why data gets leaked when it’s not supposed to. It’s not always hackers
being smart, it’s the ones inside that think they aren’t at risk, but any company or data site
is at risk especially if they are wealthy. This is why awareness and training matter.
If I oversaw this, I would put 60% of the budget into training and the other 40% would be
spent on technology. It makes no sense to get the world’s best technology without a team
that is ready to use it. This is why people get screwed because they think they are better
than the other companies that have old equipment, but those ones are better skilled. I
would rather have a well-trained staff than a bunch of confused staff on expensive
equipment.
Conclusion:
The best defense is a smart one. The more that they know, the less you have to worry about.