Human Factors in Cybersecurity Quiz

What causes people to make mistakes?

An administrator might apply an outdated security policy that doesn’t align with current best practices. For instance, they disable automatic updates, leaving systems vulnerable.

What type of human error do you think occured?

“Everyone else is clicking on a phishing link – won’t happen to me…” What type of bias do you see here?

Receipient clicks the link without carefully examining it and unknowingly provides personal login information to the attacker. The hackers tried to use Google to hide the actual link, which is from tinyurl. Type of human error?