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Hack the Human Layer: Using Behavioral Psychology to Build Stronger Cybersecurity
Location: Wise Guys Comedy Club - 8/3/26, 1:50 PM - 8/3/26, 2:15 PM (America/Los_Angeles) (25 minutes)
Hack the Human Layer: Using Behavioral Psychology to Build Stronger Cybersecurity
Dustin Sachs
Dustin Sachs

Cybersecurity failures are rarely just technical failures. More often, they are behavior failures driven by cognitive overload, decision friction, misplaced incentives, and broken workflows. This session shows how behavioral psychology can help security leaders move beyond awareness campaigns and start shaping secure behavior at the point of decision. In 20 minutes, attendees will learn how people actually make security choices under pressure, why even smart employees take risky shortcuts, and how to design environments that make the secure path the easy path. The talk will translate behavioral science into practical cybersecurity strategy, covering decision architecture, nudges, habit formation, and risk-reducing interventions that improve compliance, resilience, and execution. Attendees will leave with a sharper framework for reducing human risk by redesigning systems around how people really think and act.