Fujitsu Psychology Tool Profiles Users At Risk of Cyberattacks

itwbennett writes Fujitsu Laboratories is developing an enterprise tool that can identify and advise people who are more vulnerable to cyberattacks, based on certain traits. For example, the researchers found that users who are more comfortable taking risks are also more susceptible to virus infections, while those who are confident of their computer knowledge were at greater risk for data leaks. Rather than being like an antivirus program, the software is more like "an action log analysis than looks into the potential risks of a user," said a spokesman for the lab. "It judges risk based on human behavior and then assigns a security countermeasure for a given user."

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[TechyImmigrant]

>those who are confident of their computer knowledge were at greater risk for data leaks.

Doesn't that depend on why they are confident? If you're confident because you don't know what you don't know then maybe it's valid but if you're confident because you happen to have been designing computers for 30 years and are deeply involved in security architecture of computers, then maybe your confidence is well placed.