Haney, J.
and Furman, S.
(2023),
Handout: Users Are Not Stupid: 6 Cybersecurity Pitfalls Overturned, NIST Usable Cybersecurity, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936113, https://csrc.nist.gov/usable-cybersecurity
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Handout: Users Are Not Stupid: 6 Cybersecurity Pitfalls Overturned
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The cybersecurity community tends to focus and depend on technology to solve today's cybersecurity problems, often without taking into consideration the human element - the key individual and social factors impacting cybersecurity adoption. This handout provides an overview of six human-element misconceptions in cybersecurity and suggestions for how to overcome those. This is a companion to the journal article of the same title.Citation
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