The lack of awareness and understanding of risks is one of the biggest challenges to information security, according to a panel of experts.
Research showed that 93% of data breaches between April and June 2014 were due to human error, attendees of the inaugural (ISC)2 EMEA Security Congress in London were told.
"Nearly half of those incidents involved data being emailed to the wrong recipient,” said Ray Stanton, security advisor and executive VP of professional services at BT.
No matter how good the IT security team and the technology is, security will remain weak if information security professionals fail to influence people in the business to get the basics right, said Stanton.
Information security awareness training should be a mandatory part of induction training for everyone who joins an organisation, said former UK home secretary David Blunkett. He is right. Training employees against social engineering is a must these days. The full article is here:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240236390/The-human-factor-a-key-challenge-to-information-security-say-experts
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