{"id":294,"date":"2026-04-13T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/?p=294"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:42:18","slug":"the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/2026\/04\/13\/the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Factor in Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>If I was the acting Chief Information Security Officer I think training is the most<br \/>important thing money can be spent on. You could spend money on fancy tools and such but<br \/>when the rubber meets the road training is the most powerful tool. Funding training in the<br \/>department is extremely important to instill cybersecurity ideas into the department. If<br \/>everyone is trained properly then people will have a greater understanding of what is going on<br \/>and why the policies are the way they are.<br \/>Picture this your fancy tools are destroyed by a cyber attack so how do you contain it<br \/>without them? Simply put the tools are only as good as the user themselves. Good training<br \/>promotes good practices which proliferate from person to person. I feel some people neglect<br \/>the training because they believe they can hire less then stellar people. Then use their fancy<br \/>tools to fill in the gaps but that can only go so far.<br \/>Overall I am a firm believer in the human operator being the most important asset in the<br \/>room. There is a level of nuance that machine don\u2019t get on edge cases for security. These edge<br \/>cases are precisely why they get paid the big bucks. Having well trained people can also curb the<br \/>need for expensive fancy tools and could save money down the road. In conclusion investing in<br \/>your human assets is the most important thing in a companies cybersecurity department.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was the acting Chief Information Security Officer I think training is the mostimportant thing money can be spent on. You could spend money on fancy tools and such butwhen the rubber meets the road training is the most powerful tool. Funding training in thedepartment is extremely important to instill cybersecurity ideas into the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/2026\/04\/13\/the-human-factor-in-cybersecurity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32146,"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\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/thomashileman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}