{"id":295,"date":"2023-04-17T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/?p=295"},"modified":"2023-04-17T01:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:39:41","slug":"write-up-the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/2023\/04\/17\/write-up-the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Up &#8211; The Human Factor in Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Sean Williams<br \/>Date: 4\/2\/23<br \/><br \/><em>BLUF<br \/>When it comes down to balancing technology and training is a very important topic. <\/em>I find technology more important than employee training. Though training should not be ignored, employees should at least know the very basics.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><div><br><strong>Balancing training and cyber tech<span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial;, sans-serif\">nology<\/span><\/strong><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>When It comes to balancing training and cyber technology would depend on how I train my<br>employees and how expensive the equipment is. If it was my establishment, I would make<br>technology as simple as possible for the employees so I could allocate more to equipment.<br>I would make sure I get professional people to teach others how things need to be done, which<br>would call for me to give them more money than the people who need help since they are since<br>doing more work. Then I would prioritize cyber technologies protection because even the<br>smallest opening in the system could bring down the whole grid so that would be where I would<br>put in the most money. The main reason why I see giving more into technology than employees is<br>that even people with lots of training can still make mistakes and errors even if we prepare<br>them for it, which is why the primary focus is strengthening our security in case of an incident.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><br><strong>Conclusion<br><\/strong>In Conclusion, through our most recent reading and points of view of contributions human makes to<br>cyber threats I was able to get a better understanding of what my overall answers in this activity should<br>be. Though it could seem very unfair to the employees it\u2019s the honest truth that no matter the amount<br>of training that is given to somebody they can still make mistakes. Considering that it should be key<br>that you should have a strong defense to cover for the weak spots of the establishment. This especially<br>goes for situations like phishing attacks that could very easily trick an employee to click on it and release a deadly virus that can be detected unless there is the protection the prevent it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Sean WilliamsDate: 4\/2\/23 BLUFWhen it comes down to balancing technology and training is a very important topic. I find technology more important than employee training. Though training should not be ignored, employees should at least know the very basics. Balancing training and cyber technology When It comes to balancing training and cyber technology would&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/2023\/04\/17\/write-up-the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sean-williams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}