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News | July 31, 2018

Cyber (In)Security: Decision-Making Dynamics When Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone

By Andy Cohen

This paper focuses on how the dynamic speed of change and the compression of time in cybersecurity move individuals and organizations out of their comfort zones. This often results in forcing faulty decision-making generated by an enhanced dependence on untested assumptions. The counterbalance to this behavior begins by recognizing a key truism: within every decision lies an assumption. Equipping your cyber team with the mechanisms and tools to identify and properly challenge these assumptions drives better decision-making and new opportunities to successfully defend, attack, and adapt in the cyber battleground.

 

Cyber (In)Security: Decision-Making Dynamics When Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone