Cyber Readiness Institute’s new leader focuses on human factors of security

The Cyber Readiness Institute is incorporating an understanding of the human factors of cybersecurity into its engagements with state and local governments and small businesses, according to recently named managing director Sasha Pailet Koff, to drive low-cost improvements.

“The biggest cause that we see of intrusions happens to be human-centered, and that's what we're trying to address,” Koff told Inside Cybersecurity in a May 1 interview.

CRI announced in March that Koff would take the reins as managing director,...