Sponsored Post How would you describe the biggest security threat to your organization? Perhaps you envision a faceless cybercrime syndicate or hostile state. Or a humming botnet, remorselessly probing your systems.
As SANS Institute senior instructor Lance Spitzner explains in this analysis of Verizon’s latest Data Breach Incident Report (VZ DBIR), your biggest security threat is actually the humans you work with day in, day out.
The VZ DBIR has provided a global, vendor neutral insight into the most common drivers of cyber security incidents and breaches for the last 15 years, enabling IT and business leaders to make data driven decisions on the greatest risks facing their organizations, and how to manage them.
The latest report shows 82 percent of breaches involved a “human element”, in the form of stolen credentials, phishing, misuse, or, perhaps, most frustratingly, user error.
