Managing Security Challenges and Human Factors in Cybersecurity

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During this episode, Hatteras Hoops discusses business and national security considerations related to Human Domain Security. Current concepts around insider threat, insider risk, insider trust, insider fraud, critical people protection, personnel security and counterintelligence are broadly considered Human Domain Security. Evolved from over a millennia of documented models, practice, and theory, the terms insider threat and insider risk often have negative connotations around intention, despite the definitions being clearly inclusive of both intentional and unintentional insiders. Human Domain Security seeks to disarm and expand its value to more sensitive parts of the world, and through a more positive application.

Recording Date: 6 June 2024

Research Questions: Hatteras Hoops suggests interested students examine:

1. What empirical evidence exists across administrative, physical, and technical controls that proves changes in behavior can serve as retrospective indicators of human risk?
2. Based on history and technical advancements, what specific emerging human-centric disruptions should we expect in the next 10 years? How will it affect trust across teams and organizations? These are important topics because I don’t think we’ve fully thought through the extent of its impact from society to person

Resources:

Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned

• #123 Jonathan Roginski on Insider Threats

Other resources:

• Quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
• Human-Domain Security Evolution by Hatteras Hoops
• Cyber Crime: Insider Fraud & Extortion — The Sharp Case by Hatteras Hoops
• Global Challenges in Securing the Human-Domain, Part I:  by Hatteras Hoops
• MITRE Insider Threat TTP Knowledge Base
• Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman and Greg Mckeown
• Hatteras Hoops Medium writings
• Hatteras Hoops LinkedIn

Link to full show notes and resources

Guest Bio: Hatteras Hoops is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the Commercial vertical in the European market based out of the Hague, Netherlands. He has over twenty years’ experience spanning defense, national security, and commercial cybersecurity missions. His current focus transcends strategic consulting, governance, and human-centric security solutions. He holds a Master of Engineering degree in Cybersecurity from the George Washington University.

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