Living Security is the leader in Human Risk Management (HRM), defining how modern organizations identify, measure, and reduce human cyber risk.
Your employees, contractors, and AI agents all carry risk. Most security programs can only see a fraction of it, and none of them respond automatically when they find it.
Human Risk Management (HRM), as defined by Living Security, is the discipline of identifying, quantifying, and reducing the cybersecurity risk created by people, and increasingly, the AI systems acting on their behalf.
The modern enterprise workforce is distributed, diverse, and increasingly non-human. HRM programs that only account for full-time employees are leaving significant risk unmanaged.
Your core workforce, on managed devices, inside your perimeter. The foundation of any HRM program.
Autonomous systems with user-level credentials and real access to sensitive data, invisible to legacy HRM programs.
Employees operating outside the office perimeter, on unmanaged networks and devices, with elevated exposure.
Extended workforce with varying access levels, often outside traditional training and monitoring programs.
For years, the playbook was simple: send annual training, run phishing simulations, report completion rates. It worked, until the threat landscape changed, the workforce expanded, and leadership started asking harder questions.
Completion rates tell you nothing about who poses real-world risk today.
When a risk signal fires, someone has to manually decide what to do, if they even notice at all.
"Are we safer than last quarter?" Traditional SAT wasn't built to deliver that level of insight.
AI hasn't just changed how defenders work, it has fundamentally changed the nature of attacks, and the composition of your workforce.
Relying on traditional training to address AI-augmented social engineering is a critical misstep. The threat landscape has shifted. Your HRM program needs to shift with it.
Effective Human Risk Management unifies signals from across your existing security stack, correlates them to individual people, and turns raw data into actionable intelligence.
Your team can't personally respond to every risk signal across a 50,000-person workforce. They shouldn't have to.
Define triggers and ‘if this, then that’ logic to automatically drive the right actions.
An employee who has submitted their notice is moving sensitive data
Notify their manager with risk context
Assign employee offboarding training with best practice reminders
Open a ticket in your ITSM solution to review the dataset in question
An employee's Human Risk Index drops below 200, becoming Highly Risky
Send a low difficulty simulated phishing email to measure resiliency
Email internal best practices for staying vigilant
Enroll in monitoring for future intervention
An employee fails a phishing simulation
Were they targeted by a malicious email in the last week?
Targeted recently → deliver a role-relevant simulation 14 days later
Track click behavior and re-score after simulation completes
Not recently targeted → provide role-relevant video training
Share links to internal guidance documents and best practices
An employee fails a phishing simulation
Were they targeted by a malicious email in the last week?
Targeted recently → deliver a role-relevant simulation 14 days later
Track click behavior and re-score after simulation completes
Not recently targeted → provide role-relevant video training
Share links to internal guidance documents and best practices
Think of playbooks as your program running on autopilot, without losing precision.
A mature HRM program doesn't just reduce incidents. It gives every stakeholder the answers they need.
HRI trend data shows risk reduction across business units, with before/after comparison on every intervention.
Risk scores identify the highest-risk individuals and recommend the exact intervention most likely to change their behavior.
Documented outcome data, reduced incidents, faster remediation, lower breach exposure, tied directly to program investment.
Executive dashboards translate complex risk data into business language: trend lines, comparisons, and clear ROI.
Continuous compliance tracking maps user behavior to specific frameworks, turning audit prep from a quarterly scramble into a defensible, always-on record.
Behavioral history and risk scores give analysts instant context on whether an incident involves a known high-risk user, accelerating triage when it matters most.
Whether you're evaluating HRM for the first time or looking to mature your existing program, these resources will help.
Living Security was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024, recognized for the strength of our current offering and the depth of our HRM strategy.
Forrester defines HRM as solutions that:
Most organizations are surprised by what they find when they move beyond training completion data. We can show you.