Re-thinking the Human Factor Book
Confidential data and our personal privacy are under threat as never before. With breaches and cyber attacks on the rise, political and legal pressure is growing on business and government to step up and meet this challenge.
Unfortunately, organisations are still putting data and lives at risk because of an over-reliance on technology and an entrenched mindset that views human error and misjudgement as unmanageable flaws.
This failure to address the ‘human factor’ is a missed opportunity, one that leaves them vulnerable and at a major commercial disadvantage.
So, if they are to bring about a fundamental long-term shift in users’ levels of awareness and behaviour that’s effective and sustainable, organisations must adopt a different approach.
In ‘Rethinking the Human Factor’, information security expert, Bruce Hallas sets out a new philosophical approach. Rather than creating a separate security culture, Hallas’ focus is on how to make risk mitigation an unconscious ‘habit’ that’s embedded within the organisation.
His ground-breaking philosophy draws on insights from neuroscience, behavioural science and economics, marketing, psychology and culture, and shows it is possible to redesign information security initiatives by making ‘the right behaviour become the easy behaviour’.
‘Rethinking the Human Factor’ is thought-provoking reading for CIOs, CTOs and CISOs, as well as the increasing number of managers, independent consultants or anyone in the information security sector responsible for education, awareness and behaviour change programmes.
Re-thinking the Human Factor is a book that comes at a crucial time for the cybersecurity industry. It draws on relevant and topical news stories and shares interesting lessons for us all on awareness behaviour and culture.
The book draws on many strands of science and behavioural research and yet Bruce manages to make this easy to read and follow, which security and cultural change professionals will appreciate.
With this book, Bruce is creating a platform for debate rather than being prescriptive and he highlights some important considerations that we cannot ignore if we are genuinely trying to get people to change their behaviour.
Bruce backs up what he’s saying with plenty of research, statistics and examples that leaves you in no doubt as to the importance of the ideas he’s proposing.
This is a great book that is ideal for any security professional to get to grips with addressing the human factor challenges that we are facing today.
Re-thinking the Human Factor is a book that comes at a crucial time for the cybersecurity industry. It draws on relevant and topical news stories and shares interesting lessons for us all on awareness behaviour and culture.
The book draws on many strands of science and behavioural research and yet Bruce manages to make this easy to read and follow, which security and cultural change professionals will appreciate.
With this book, Bruce is creating a platform for debate rather than being prescriptive and he highlights some important considerations that we cannot ignore if we are genuinely trying to get people to change their behaviour.
Bruce backs up what he’s saying with plenty of research, statistics and examples that leaves you in no doubt as to the importance of the ideas he’s proposing.
This is a great book that is ideal for any security professional to get to grips with addressing the human factor challenges that we are facing today.
