"Organizations traditionally approach security risk through a narrow lens, often equating "security" primarily with cybersecurity. While cybersecurity is critically important, it represents only one subset of a much broader security landscape. Cybersecurity focuses on the protection of technologies that collect, store, process and transmit data. By contrast, security-related risk encompasses all forms of loss arising from the failure to protect organizational assets."
"Evidence increasingly suggests that a common accelerant across these diverse loss categories is the decline in cognitive capacity, critical thinking and sustained attention within both the workforce and leadership. This includes broader societal trends, such as a lack of validation of sources, which results in flawed work products. This combination sets up direct security consequences and requires security leaders to expand their skills and competencies to identify and avoid issues."
Security encompasses far more than cyber protections and includes any loss from failure to protect organizational assets. Many threats focus on human, organizational, or governance weaknesses rather than electronic theft or disruption. Declining cognitive capacity, reduced critical thinking, and diminished sustained attention across workforce and leadership amplify diverse loss categories. Societal trends like poor source validation produce flawed outputs that create direct security consequences. Security failures usually result from humans missing signals or failing to act decisively, not from absent controls. Reduced cognitive bandwidth degrades situational awareness and increases risks across cyber, fraud, IP, supply chain, reputation, and physical security domains.
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