Cybersecurity approaches traditionally protect data and users by determining the most effective and secure processes, tools and programs, regardless of complexity and user impact. Alternatively, umanizing security is a security approach that prioritizes the people that need the security more than the items to be protected.
Security should be designed, implemented and supported by starting with the people. If items are made “secure,” but unusable for those who use them, security will be resisted, which results in less protection than expected (and required). As explained in the 2005 research study, "The User is Not the Enemy," by Anna Adams and Angela Sasse, complex security would keep out the most threats, but would make using it too hard for the people it is trying to protect.