After 25 years in security — from defending Department of Defense networks to helping enterprises protect data today — one truth has never changed: people will always take the path of least resistance.
This is not about recklessness, and it is rarely about malice. It is human nature. We all want to get work done. We want to meet deadlines, please our managers, and head home on time. In those moments, risk is not top of mind. Productivity is.
And that is where insider risk quietly lives.