Cyber Heard

More Tech Isn't the Answer: The Human Factor in Cyber

Joe Hubback, Partner & CISO at Elixirr

30 September 2026 · 29 min

Joe Hubback explains why cyber risk quantification only really works when it's built around reasonable worst case scenarios, why third party and OT risk are often more about people than technology, and why he believes the industry's biggest blind spot is behaviour, not tooling.

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