People matter to security, from employees who are targets of social engineering, to architects & engineers who devise and implement security-critical policies.
People management involves preventing these people from becoming part of an attack by:
- helping good actors act well (e.g. education)
- filtering out bad actors (e.g. background checks)
- preventing single points of failure (e.g. limiting intra-departmental communication)
- managing people to help them balance security with other requirements
- liasing between different organizations/divisions to ensure critical information reaches the people who need it.
