Egress has just released its Insider Data Breach Survey of 2021. This survey reveals that a shocking 94% of organisations have experienced data breaches in the past year.
Over 500 IT leaders and 3,000 employees in the US and UK across vertical sectors including financial services, healthcare and legal were surveyed.
According to 84% of IT leaders surveyed, human error was the top cause of serious incidents. This has been due to employees breaking security rules, and being victimised by social engineering attacks including phishing.
This is concerning news, especially as we move more into hybrid working. The survey also found that over half of IT leaders believe that remote or hybrid working will make it significantly harder to prevent data breaches caused by human error or phishing.
Despite this, human error was the least of their concerns. Only 21% of respondents cited human error as their biggest security concern.
For 28% of respondents the top security concern was actually malicious insiders, and with ransomware attacks and data breaches constantly in the news, it's not hard to imagine why.
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