Human Factors in Rail Cyber Security
Amanda Widdowson
Thales Cyber and Consulting
Amanda is an experienced Human Factors (HF) consultant/manager and Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (FIEHF). For over 20 years, she has applied the full range of HF sub-areas in the Rail and Defence industries. For 6 years, before joining Thales Cyber and Consulting as HF lead in 2013, Amanda led HF for Tube Lines (London Underground), and was ultimately responsible for ensuring HF considerations and issues were adequately considered in programmes. Her experience as a human error analyst in rail safety incident investigations and current role at Thales allowed her to develop an innovative approach to capture the human element in cyber security scenarios; the Cyber Human Error Assessment Tool (CHEAT). This approach can be applied proactively or post-incident and has attracted international interest.
Abstract
The majority of cyber security incidents cite the human element as a contributory factor. Information Security systems that rely on operators remembering lengthy, complicated passwords and following procedures that do not... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Amanda Widdowson (Thales Cyber and Consulting)
Topic Areas
Traffic management and driver advisory systems , Systems safety, risk management and incident reporting , Human error and human reliability , Resilience engineering and rail system design trade-offs
Session
Se-1 » Security (14:00 - Tuesday, 7th November, Smile 1)
