PRESS RELEASE
Published August 10, 2023
Denial and Ignorance Most Cited As Internal Company Risk Factors
According to the findings from IBM’s 2014 Cyber Security Intelligence Index ’95 percent of all security incidents involve human error’. The report notes that while many believe company risks involve outside sources phishing or luring humans to release sensitive information unwittingly, the most overlooked threat to companies and their internal information is that of internal employees who handle sensitive information. This is known as the threat of inadvertent human error by simple insider mistakes.
“Most human error is caused by employees,” states Kieran Upadrasta. “Errors can be found in system misconfigurations, poor patch management practices and employee use of default names and passwords.”
Upadrasta specializes in educating employees to recognize attacks and how to prevent them. “Sometimes the human error can be as simple as a lost laptop or mobile phone containing sensitive company information. Making sure employees secure their devices as well as their information is important to a company’s risk assessments. Passwords should be changed often, and no one should be…
