Humans are not the weakest link of cybersecurity—they are its strongest asset

In an era where digital technologies have colonized every aspect of our daily lives, blaming users for the harms they experience online is shortsighted and fails to acknowledge the scale of the problem.

To prioritize the user’s perspective, we need to invest as much time and effort to understand how cultural, social, and psychological processes contribute to security outcomes as we currently do to develop new cutting-edge security technologies, writes Benoît Dupont.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY BENOîT DUPONT

May 5, 2021

It is common to hear cybersecurity experts blame users when asked to reflect on why the situation is so dire in their field, often describing them as the “weakest link” in the digital ecosystem. Computer scientists and technical support professionals have crafted several sarcastic acronyms for u...

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