Forbes August 5, 2024
Chris Novak is Managing Director of Cyber Security Consulting at Verizon.
This year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) indicates that employees are more likely to report security incidents like phishing than in previous years, which may indicate that business leaders are removing the fear of reporting human-caused breaches. But given that the human element has been a threat for years, it’s worth asking, why now?
Human behavior is hard to change. Consider passwords, a building block of cybersecurity. Users gravitate toward simpler passwords and tend to reuse them even though it puts their accounts at greater risk. Why? Because it’s easier. Every additional character, number and special symbol strengthens the password by an order of magnitude, but typically, users...
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