Behavior Data Now Key to Cyber Risk Posture

Frost & Sullivan's Stahnke on How Human Risk Insights Drive Better Threat Response Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 10, 2025

Legacy cybersecurity training often fails because users skip the content or treat it as a compliance task. Forward-looking organizations now recognize that human behavior is a critical piece of their security posture, said Claudio Stahnke, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

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Instead of static annual videos, companies are adopting interactive, real-time approaches that educate employees about what actions to avoid - like clicking on suspicious links.

Nudges - brief, context-sensitive alerts triggered by risky behavior - serve as just-in-time training, Stahnke said. "There will be like an endpoint agent on the machine of an employee or computer. When they hover a link, there will be a small pop up saying, 'Hey, are you sure that you want to click on this?'"

These interventions ...