Module 7 Journal Entry

The meme I created shows a group of individuals sitting around a table, all looking distressed while one stands near the front of the room, seemingly the leader of the workers. This individual seems to be emphasizing something and seems to not be in the best of moods, most likely due to the actions of the workers. The top text of the meme says “We have meetings like this every week because people think those ‘free car’ emails are legitimate”, referencing a common spam email tactic. Hackers will sometimes email users that they’ve won something free like a car, acting as a generous organization or as a car manufacturing company. They’ll then request sensitive information or spread a virus to the user’s computer once the link is clicked, leading to disastrous outcomes, especially if the information provided relates to the user’s work or financial information. The bottom text says “But a human factors program would be ‘too costly’ and ‘time-consuming’ right?”, implying that higher management does not want to implement the program due to its cost. The joke is that the company has a cyber-breach due to human vulnerabilities every week, but refuses to implement a program or department that could fix the problem due to fears about the cost. This is sort of ironic because they are losing more money in the long term by allowing these breaches to continually happen instead of spending money to maintain a human factors department to prevent cyber breaches from happening due to human vulnerabilities.

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