TLDR Tech / InfoSec
Why Your Brain is a Cyber Security Risk
Under stress, the brain defaults to familiar choices, a response that threat actors deliberately exploit. A fake password reset email triggers panic, which leads to clicking a phishing link and reusing an old password. That reused password can compromise a corporate account. Familiarity bias and cognitive narrowing are the mechanisms behind this. The fixes are concrete: deploy MFA with certificates on VPN, roll out a corporate key vault, stop forcing password expiry per NIST SP 800-63B, adopt passkeys, run monthly security awareness training, and monitor dark web credential leaks.
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