October 30, 2019 | less than a minute read

The Weakest Link in Cyber Security

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Bob Ackerman

Founder & Managing Director

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Bob Ackerman

Founder & Managing Director

Cyber Security is often viewed as a technology problem looking for technology-based solutions. While technology does bring the ability to manage scale, velocity and complexity, the weakest link in cyber security continues to be the human element. While increasingly obvious to practioneers, validated by data, that human element is proving to be not only the largest single threat vector, but it also continues to be highly resistant to change...

According to Security Intelligence, nearly 75% of cyber-breaches in the US are due to employee negligence, mostly unintentional. A separate study by the University of Alabama found that the same percentage of employees also uploaded classified work files to personal cloud accounts. And IBM also unearthed huge internal problems when its X-Force Threat Intelligence Index last year found that human error in the form of basic judgments accounted for more than two-thirds of all compromised online records in 2017.