www.AmericanSecurityToday.com September 2020 - Edition 48
Minimizing Cognitive Bias in
Cybersecurity
Guest OpEd by Margaret Cunningham,
Principal Research Scientist,
Forcepoint
It is 7am, and ten minutes
into the morning you have
already dismissed the first
round of notifications littering
your screen.
Respond, dismiss, delete, save,
and keep going.
It is impossible to escape the
endless stream of decisions required
to get through the day.
While some people try to minimize
unnecessary decision-making
(notably, Steve
Jobs' daily uniform), it is exceptionally
difficult to succeed.
For instance, research shows
that the average person faces up-
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