After high-profile cybersecurity attacks at MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment last fall, experts at the Black Hat USA convention say the hospitality industry should focus on shoring up human defenses to suspicious behavior.

Bob Barker, a sales engineer manager at the cloud security company Sysdig, said those large-scale cyberattacks can happen very quickly. For companies, that means they can have just minutes to respond to a threat. And for consumers, it means they should be careful to share too much information online.

“Believe it or not, that’s where a lot of these incursions come from,” Barker said. “It’s someone who was able to assume an identity of someone who had more rights or more privileges in an environment.”

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