There’s a phrase that’s become gospel in cybersecurity: “Employees are the last line of defense.” We’ve built an entire industry around it. Billions of dollars in security awareness programs, mandatory simulations and user-reporting workflows across endpoints, applications and collaboration tools. All predicated on a premise that sounds reasonable until you examine what we’re actually asking. Here’s what we’re asking: for the marketing coordinator, the accounts payable clerk and the sales rep to catch what sophisticated security tools and trained professionals missed. That’s not a security strategy. That’s asking farmers to repel mercenaries. The hierarchy we don’t talk about Think of the ac...