Humans and Cyber Security: How Organisations Can Enhance Resilience Through Human Factors [Hardcover]

Amanda Widdowson?is the Head of Human Factors and User Experience Capability at a large, multinational organisation. She has been applying human factors for over 25 years, mostly in the Defence and Rail sectors. A former President and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, she served as a trustee on the Executive Board and as Chair of the Honours Committee until 2022 before starting a second term on the board. In 2018, she received the CIEHFs Lifetime Achievement award for significant contributions to the application of ergonomics/human factors. In 2019 she won a Highly Commended award for the Management Consulting Associations Thought Leading Consultant of the Year and the UK Ministry of Defences H Rowbotham award for outstanding contribution to the field of Human Factors Integration. In 2024, she was presented with the CIEHFs annual Institute Lecture award and was invited to speak about human factors in cyber security in this keynote address.

 1. Introduction.  2. Problem definition  why consider human factors in cyber security?.  3. Motivation and behaviour.  4. Individual vulnerabilities.  5. Organisational vulnerabilities.  6. Mitigating solutions.  7. Practical materials to capture risk.  8. Applied examples of risk identification and mitigation.  9. Summary and conclusions.  References.  

Cyber security incidents are often attributed to human error. The discipline of human factors recognises the importance of identifying organisational root causes, rather than focusing on individual actions or behaviours.?Humans and Cyber Security: How Organisations Can Enhance Resilience Through Human Factors?delivers an applied approach to capturing and mitigating the risk of the human element in cyber security and proposes that it is el3-