The Rest of the Cybersecurity Story
When cyberattackers succeed, semiconscious decision-making — seemingly isolated decisions the target company made without fully considering the possible consequences — is often to blame. The Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) team has developed and applied the Cybersafety methodology to analyze successful cyberattacks — and prevent others. CAMS’s founding director describes how a Cybersafety analysis of the 2017 Equifax data breach revealed multiple instances of semiconscious decision-making.