We All Have Been the “Stupid User” at Some Point with Dr. Margaret Cunningham

Human-Centered Security

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Dr. Margaret Cunningham is an experimental psychologist and the Principal Research Scientist for Human Behavior at Forcepoint’s X-Lab. In this role, she serves as the behavioral science subject matter expert in an interdisciplinary security team driving the development of human-centric security solutions. Previously, she supported the Human Systems Integration branch of The Department of Homeland Security.

In this episode, we talk about:

Why saying “people are the weakest link” is not a productive mindset when it comes to cybersecurity.
How we can thoughtfully create systems/designs that mitigate the risk of human limitations.
The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (whether you are in UX or cybersecurity, you will likely find this framework interesting).
The nuances around errors and rulebreaking and how we can, ideally, learn from our employees’ behavior to make the systems and the organization better.

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