Users not to blame for failure of policy fads

It's too easy for the information security industry to shift the blame to those who shouldn't have to know better.

In cyber security and online privacy, user awareness, education and training have long passed their used-by dates.

We have technological problems around identity security and mutual authentication that need technological fixes, yet governments and businesses are averse to investing in security and the long-standing policy fad is to educate users out of trouble. It’s a massive policy failure.

We see a policy fixation everywhere. The dominant philosophy in security is process-based. The international information security standard ISO 27001 is a management-system standard; it has almost nothing to say about security technology. Its focus is on documentation and audit box ticking. It’s intellectually a carbon copy of the ISO 9001 quality management standard, and we all know the limitations of that.

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