A new report sheds light on how human cognitive biases affect cybersecurity decisions and business outcomes. It's a scenario commonly seen in today's businesses: executives read headlines of major breaches by foreign adversaries out to pilfer customers' social security numbers and passwords. They worry about the same happening to them and strategize accordingly – but in the text, they learn the breach was in a different industry, of a different size, after different data. This incident, irrelevant to the business, distracted leaders from threats that matter to them. It's an example of availability bias, one of many cognitive biases…
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