Q&A: Former White House CIO Theresa Payton on why security pros should buck conventional wisdom

Theresa Payton, the former CIO at the White House and founder of security firm Fortalice, believes that the key to outsmarting cybercriminals is by designing security to focus on the human rather than the technology. Payton argues that more than 90% of breaches in the last two years were due to human error, and over 75% involved tricking the user.