Organisations that fail to adequately address the potential vulnerabilities that internal employees sometimes encounter when developing an IT security strategy are exposing themselves to potentially catastrophic dangers, infosec experts have warned.
Users are inevitably the first line of defense in cyber security, but can make mistakes, often because security protocols are too complex or time consuming. The scale of the risk that staff inside organisations can pose was brought into sharp focus by a new report, Predicts 2023: Cybersecurity Industry Focuses on the Human Deal, by analyst firm Gartner. The study warns that, by 2025, lack of talent or human error will be responsible for over half of significant cyber incidents.
