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Why Security Policies Fail: The Human Side of Cybersecurity | John Elliott
Most security failures aren't technical — they're human. So why do we keep designing security programs that ignore how people actually think and behave?
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Why Security Policies Fail: The Human Side of Cybersecurity | John Elliott
Most security failures aren't technical — they're human. So why do we keep designing security programs that ignore how people actually think and behave?
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Most security failures aren't technical — they're human. So why do we keep designing security programs that ignore how people actually think and behave?
In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, John Elliott — Pluralsight author fellow, PCI DSS contributor, and specialist in regulated security and data protection — makes the case that the language, culture, and psychology behind your security program matter just as much as the controls themselves.
Why Security Policies Fail: The Human Side of Cybersecurity | John Elliott
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Josh Burkhead is a Senior Podcast Producer and Host at Pluralsight, where he leads the Pluralsight Podcast — a weekly conversation series built for L&D and technology leaders navigating the fast-moving world of AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and workforce development. With over two decades in content production, Josh brings a practitioner's curiosity to every episode. His approach is conversational and assumption-challenging — less interested in surface-level takes than in the decisions, tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons that leaders actually use. Whether he's pressing a PCI security standards architect on why policies fail in the real world or asking an AI expert what responsible machine learning actually looks like inside an enterprise, Josh treats every conversation as an opportunity to learn out loud alongside his audience.
