A Review: Human Factor and Cybersecurity
Ashraf Abzakh, Ahmad Althunibat · 2023
Nowadays cybersecurity became more important for a world that is moving exponentially towards Internet of Things (IoT), automation, and online services, Thus protecting information and data about people, industrial secretes, government assets and much more information sources became even more important. And to understand cybersecurity we have to brake it into segments related to technology, people, procedures and policies, and physical security, this will insure clear definition for the process of risk assessment of factors and the way they interact with the remaining elements according to MITRE ATT&CK framework [1]. By doing that experts found that the human factor is considered the weakest and hardest to include in the cybersecurity framework of any establishment, this is because the complex nature of people and the easiness of falling victims to Social Engineering (SE) attacks due to the exploitation of psychology, financial factors, environmental factors, social factors and even educational or lack of education and awareness.