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Human-Centred Security

Designing systems, processes and safeguards around human capabilities, limitations and actual working behaviour.

Related domains: Cybersecurity · Industrial EngineeringConcept ID: concept-human-centred-security

Definition

Human-Centred Security is an approach to designing systems, processes and safeguards that accounts for users' capabilities, limitations and actual ways of working.

Human Explanation

Security measures should help people work securely rather than create conditions that encourage them to bypass the intended process.

Why it Matters

Controls aligned with real user needs and working conditions are more usable, more consistently followed and therefore more effective.

Conceptual Boundary

Human-Centred Security does not weaken security requirements for convenience. It seeks ways to satisfy those requirements that people can understand and apply reliably in real work.

Practical Perspective

When users repeatedly bypass a safeguard, the organisation should examine the design of the safeguard and the work system before assuming that another reminder will solve the problem.

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