This is an article by Dan Scherr and Tanya Scherr, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, March 5, 2025.
When considering cyberattack risk, understanding the primacy of the human factor is central in developing plans for continuity of operations and incident response. With the increasing cost of data breaches, it is all the more important to educate users on best practices and to employ robust security programs.
Learn how to fortify your organization’s cybersecurity against the human factor.
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Dan Scherr
Dan Scherr holds a Ph.D. in public policy administration with a terrorism, mediation, and peace focus. He is an assistant professor in criminal justice and homeland security at the University of Tennessee Southern and program coordinator for the cybersecurity program. He is also a co-director of the honors program. He is a certified fraud examiner and Army veteran who served stateside during the September 11 attacks and has over two decades of experience in homeland security and operations.
Tanya M. Scherr
Tanya Scherr holds a Ph.D. in public policy administration with a healthcare and emergency preparedness focus. She is an associate professor in healthcare administration for the University of Arizona and has three decades of healthcare experience. Along with being a certified fraud examiner since 2011, she is also a former firefighter–emergency medical technician (EMT), previously licensed in several states, and held national certification. She has held several executive and board of director positions for community nonprofits that focus on women’s equality, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
