Human-Centric Cybersecurity: Understanding and Mitigating the Role of Human Error in Cyber Incidents

Abstract

In this study, developments in cybersecurity continue to be treated as human deficiencies, such as the territory of policies, procedures and misconduct, mainly cultivating the floods of organizations. The important role of human factors in vulnerability To address this issue of negligence, the study presents a human-centered cybersecurity program that includes ongoing user training of the system, behavioral monitoring, and proposals including detection tools enhanced by AI. The research objectives are twofold: first, to examine how human actions contribute to cyber vulnerabilities, and second, to identify effective ways to mitigate these risks through user-centered approaches integration of roles found that the results show that human-centered policies significantly improve cybersecurity outcomes. Phishing error rates dropped from 15-20% to 5-10%, and password misuse dropped from 30-40% to 10-15%. The system reduced incident response time from 48-72 hours to even 24-36 hours, while increasing user engagement in safety actions. Additionally, the overall cost of a security breach is halved.  This study emphasizes the need to address human behavior alongside technological processes to develop flexible and comprehensive cybersecurity policies.