The figures aren’t encouraging: Recent reports have concluded that most employees don’t know much about cybersecurity best practices.
The third-annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report, released by security education and training firm MediaPRO in 2018, found that 75% of the 1,024 U.S. employees surveyed lack cyber awareness.
Mimecast also reported similar findings. The company, which specializes in cloud-based email management, commissioned Google Consumer Research to survey 1,000 employees across various sectors and found that some 25% of them were unaware of the most common cybersecurity threats, such as phishing and ransomware attacks.
Furthermore, Mimecast found that about half of those surveyed said their employers did not have mandatory cybersecurity training, with 10% saying their employers had optional training and some 10% saying they only received formal cybersecurity training during their onboarding process.
Given those statistics, it’s no wonder that cybersecurity experts still consider humans to be the weakest link in the security layers meant to safeguard an organization’s systems and the data they contain.
That stance may be no mystery….
