Even if you don't watch Mr. Robot, it does a lot to portray hacker culture and mines the biggest ongoing risk in cybersecurity for seasons worth of menacing plot material: people.

The risks are real. Beyond the fiction of Hollywood, my personal experiences with it come from my brothers, both former officers in the Army, and my husband, who led product teams at two different cybersecurity startups. I listened for years as they shared their real-life struggles of dealing with the rapidly changing threat landscape and how even with the most advanced technology, it didn't make organizations more secure because people still accidentally did bad things. Technology alone is never enough and can never adapt fast enough.

The average person has grown uncomfortably numb with this reality. Many feel powerless even despite our collective raised awareness and enhancements in every kind of protective software.