The poll was conducted by Spiceworks Voice of IT on behalf of CloudEntr in September. The study collected 438 surveys from IT professionals at companies with 20 to 499 employees in industries related to financial services, manufacturing, professional services, government and non-profits.
Of the IT professionals who responded in the survey, 77 percent said that employees are the weakest link in the security infrastructure. The number is even bigger in financial services firms: 81 percent.
Curiously, despite recent high-profile security breaches, a clear majority of IT professionals—64 percent—said they won't change any of their planned security-related infrastructure buying in 2015, though an even larger majority (89 percent) said they plan to provide more employee education next year.
This is a good thing, because effective security awareness training is a great way to manage the problem of employees causing ransomware infections by falling for spear-phishing attacks.
