Gregory Michaelidis is a contributing writer for TechRepublic and a cybersecurity initiative fellow at New America. Until January 2017 he was senior advisor for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Cyberattacks stem overwhelmingly from basic human error, not coding bugs or chip flaws. Yet user-centered approaches to cybersecurity are routinely treated as an afterthought.