In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Anshuman Sharma, Associate Director CSIRT & Investigative Response, APJ, Verizon Business to discuss the human factor in cybersecurity, exploring how human errors can significantly weaken cybersecurity measures and the various ways to safeguard against bad actors.

Introducing Anshuman Sharma (00:00)
Human error in cyber security (00:51)
Social engineering (01:32)
Error in misconfiguration (04:41)
Privilege misuse (07:18)
Ensuring cyber hygiene (08:18)
Customized training (09:56)
Threat actors leveraging AI (13:14)
Explaining operational technology (OT) (14:34)
Difficulties in training workforce (15:18)
Using AI to ensure cyber security (18:13)

Edited by Abhishek Kumar

Broadcast on:

31 Jul 2023