image credit: pixabay
Cyberattacks today are an inevitable occurrence, rather than mere possibility. Near-daily comes news of another organization seeing their systems taken offline or their data being stolen as a result of a cyber intrusion. The nature of modern businesses means that cybersecurity lapses pose a very real threat to its ongoing survival – and something that every single employee in an organization has a role to play in preventing.
Thales’ 2024 Data Threat Report revealed human factors are still a major cause of cloud data breaches. Of the IT professionals that were surveyed, 22% stated that human error was the single most concerning threat. Furthermore, 74% placed threats from human error as a key priority. In the last three years, human error has ranked either first or second as the leading source of cyberattacks for enterprises.
