The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
Publish Date: 2026-02-26 05:02:00
Source Domain: www.csoonline.com
When we talk about the human element in security, we should be talking about the CISOs running on four hours of sleep during an incident. The analysts pattern-matching across thousands of signals. The threat hunters who notice something slightly off in authentication logs. The architects who see the structural weakness before it becomes a breach.
These are elite defenders. Trained professionals. The actual human intelligence in your security posture.
If they can’t keep up — if their capacity is consumed by false positive triage, user-submitted reports, operational escalations and the constant pressure to clear queues — then no amount of awareness training for end users is going to close that gap.
