Cybersecurity Is Everyone’s Job

As we all know by now, the human factor is crucial to enterprise security. Cyber attacks routinely exploit vulnerable human behaviors to gain entry, since organizations must trust their own people—or at least some of them—with access to critical systems.

Humans make decisions on risk tradeoffs, funding for security programs, adherence to policies, and hiring, factors which impact the organization’s security posture in many ways. From the newest intern to the chief executive, all members hold the power to harm, or to help, the security of sensitive data and essential systems.

Acknowledging this is a necessary but insufficient step. The humans we rely on must know what to do about all of this. Given that cybersecurity is neither the expertise nor passion of most people, there must be an easy-to-understand and easy-to-do set of actions that everyone can perform to do their part.