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Four Common Biases CISOs Need to Avoid

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BharatMalviya
Four Common Biases CISOs Need to Avoid

CISOs who lead global teams must be especially cautious about judging situations based on their personal beliefs and values.


Quite often, they hold cognitive biases that obstruct their ability to make sound risk management and incident response judgments.


The decisions taken by security leaders are frequently influenced by a range of cognitive biases. It’s vital to avoid these biases if cyber threats are to be properly interpreted and acted upon, especially when big disruptions occur, like the recent move to a more remote work environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Because many breaches are caused by human error, knowing how people think, feel, and behave is critical to good cybersecurity.


Understanding behavioral biases are even more critical in the age of remote work when personal security hygiene has a stronger impact on overall network health and the implications of a single bad decision might have far-reaching consequences.


Confirmation bias


CISOs sometimes make the mistake of assuming that the threat narrative they choose is always correct. Attack attribution, or threat attribution, is one area where security officials can easily fall into the trap of laying responsibility on a certain nation-state or threat actor just because they assume that’s what happened. Instead.


CISOs should look for objective data points to reduce confirmation bias, consider alternative possibilities, and actively challenge their beliefs.



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