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Stop Blaming Users and Get Serious About Your IAM Practices

By Preston Hogue on September 07, 2017

 

My name is Preston Hogue, and I’m a user.

(And so are you.)

As the world continues to transform itself digitally, we users are constantly working with new technologies. We’re also using more technologies at once, in more places. Sometimes even before our first cup of coffee.

All of this ultimately leaves us more susceptible to making costly mistakes. Technology has proven over and over again that it evolves much more quickly than users’ ability to adjust. As a result, opportunities for error increase regularly and exponentially.

Today if a hacker knows someone’s email address or password, there’s a chance they can get into a bank account, an insurance account, LinkedIn, Salesforce, everything. And hackers have grown so sophisticated in their phishing attacks that even the most knowledgeable users — the very CISOs and security professionals who may be reading this article — can be duped into taking the bait.

So how is it that we can expect a higher level of sophistication from other users? Why do we continue to pin accountability for high-profile attacks on the user, when the security community hasn’t shifted its focus to where the risks are?

 

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