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Why Security Depends on Usability — and How to Achieve Both

November 30, 2017

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Any initiative that reduces usability will have consequences that make security less effective.

Security and usability are a zero-sum game. Effective security has to come at the expense of usability, and vice versa. That’s the way it always has been, and so it always will be. Right?

Well, not necessarily — in fact, not at all. In the real world, any security initiative that degrades usability will lead to unintended consequences — user workarounds, rejection by the business — that make it less effective. The highest levels of security can be achieved only with an equally high level of usability.

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