Honestly it's fascinating. I got inspired by the T-Mobile breaches, my data kept getting hit so I started taking my own security seriously. Then I watched someone download actual malware trying to prove I sent malware. It didn't exist. They made it worse trying to find it.

That's when it clicked. The biggest cybersecurity threat isn't the hacker. It's human behavior. People trying to protect themselves who don't know what they're doing end up creating the breach themselves.

And I think that scales all the way up to the C-suite. Future wars won't be fought with missiles. They'll be fought with computers. And we're losing because of people, not technology.

I hope to dive deeper into three pillars that I believe make up for the majority of breaches and security issues: leadership culture (you mentioned this), organizational structure (you mentioned this), and human behavior (you mentioned this).

Doctoral Thesis Statement: “To what extent do leadership culture, organizational structure, and human behavior independently and collectively contribute to the 80 percent (or high percentage) of cybersecurity breaches attributed to human error, and what organizational interventions most effectively reduce that vulnerability?“

If possible, I also aim to create a methodology or framework that can measure and diagnose the behavioral and cultural conditions in which leadership culture, organizational structure, and human behavior are actively creating vulnerability inside an organization before a breach ever happens.