Human factors, including lack of awareness, training and inconsistent policy adherence, are getting in the way of cybersecurity for smaller businesses.
A new survey of more than 600 business and IT security managers conducted by LastPass and survey research firm InnovateMR shows that cyberattacks targeting smaller organizations have increased significantly in recent years, as cyber criminals have learned these organizations are relatively easy targets.
But despite this only three out of 10 leaders surveyed believe their company faces a very high risk (rated at more than eight out of 10) of having a cybersecurity issue. Phishing attacks, cloud vulnerabilities and data loss from ransomware or malware are seen as top threats in the next 12 months.
There’s a wider tendency to optimism too, executives (92 percent) and IT leaders (93 percent) believe employees ‘understand the security expectations’ for their jobs, while non-IT leaders are decidedly less confident that employees understand (only 78 percent).
Yet roughly one in five business leaders admits to circumventing security policies, as do one in 10 IT security leaders. Younger workers (one in four)…
