Glossary
Human factor
The central role of human behaviour in security: most attacks go through a person first.
The majority of successful attacks start with a human action: a click on a booby-trapped link, a reused password, a rule bypassed for convenience. Rather than blaming people, the effective approach makes the right action easy and trains regularly. Security is as much about people as about technology.
See also
Data breachWhen data ends up exposed or in the wrong hands, following an attack, a mistake or a misconfiguration.Password managerA digital vault that creates and remembers strong passwords for you; you only memorise one.GRCA way of steering security as a genuine business matter: governance, risk management and compliance with the rules.Identity and access management (IAM)The set of tools that manage accounts and decide who is allowed to access what.