O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: How adversarial posture affects decision-making, how decision trees can build more dynamic defenses, and the imperative role of UX in security.In this episode, I talk with Kelly Shortridge, detection product manager at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. We talk about how common cognitive biases apply to security roles, how decision trees can help security practitioners overcome assumptions and build more dynamic defenses, and how combining security and UX could lead to a more secure future.Here are some highlights: How the win-or-lose mindset affects defenders’ decision-making Prospect theory asserts that how we make decisions depends on whether we’re in the domain of gains mindset or the domain of losses mindset. An appropriate analogy is to compare how gamblers make decisions. When gamblers are in the hole, they're a lot more likely to make risky decisions. They're trying to recoup their losses and reason they can do that by making a big le