Concerningly, more than 60 per cent of people do not know what steps to take in the event of a data breach. More than 30 per cent of breaches involve phishing. Your IT team works around the clock to implement and maintain cybersecurity defenses, while the rest of your employees click on suspicious links and reply to phishing emails, putting your entire business at risk. This creates a vicious cycle. The IT team or your managed service provider is constantly patching, fixing, and responding to threats caused by untrained and unsuspecting users. The majority of cyber attacks begin with end-users. When an attacker compromises one device, like an employee’s laptop or tablet, they gain a valuable foothold into the entire network that can be exploited to launch further attacks on your organization.
95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error, according to IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index