24. Human factors psychology focuses on optimizing the relat…
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24. Humаn fаctоrs psychоlоgy focuses on optimizing the relаtionship between people and the systems they interact with.
A multinаtiоnаl technоlоgy firm conducted аn in-depth study on the effects of pre-SDL phase provided to its development teams before initiating projects under the formal Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). In this case study, developers underwent a comprehensive training program designed not only to teach secure coding practices and threat modeling techniques but also to shift their cognitive frameworks toward proactive security risk assessment fundamentally. Over multiple projects, the firm observed that teams with pre-SDL training consistently identified potential security issues earlier in the development cycle and exhibited a marked reduction in vulnerability density compared to teams that received traditional ad-hoc security briefings. In the study of pre-SDL security training, which component of the training was most directly responsible for the observed reduction in security vulnerabilities, and which theoretical framework best explains this transformation?