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Deeper Dive: Take Action to Close the Largest Cause of Data Security Incidents – Your Employees

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

David Kitchen writes:

If you work at a typical company, employee actions and inadvertent disclosures present the greatest threat to the security of your data. Therefore, providing proper training and technical safeguards is one of the most important means to enhance your company’s security profile.

In BakerHostetler’s newly-released 2018 Data Security Incident Response Report, we assisted our clients with over 560 incidents, more than a third of which stemmed from phishing incidents in which an employee was tricked by an email message into providing access credentials to an unauthorized party, visiting a phony website, downloading an infected document or clicking on a link that installed malware. Other sizeable incident types also involved employee errors: 17 percent of incidents were inadvertent disclosures and 11 percent were due to stolen or lost devices.

Because people are fallible, training is not enough. Technological safety nets are needed.

Read more on BakerHostetler Data Privacy Monitor.


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