The workforce is transforming at an unprecedented rate and scale. The nearterm future is one of humans plus AI agents working in harmony, underpinned by a security program that proactively manages the behavioral risk of both. We surveyed 4,200 professionals in 14 countries to uncover how they are adapting to this new paradigm. The reality: […]
Despite significant investments in cybersecurity technologies, the human element remains a primary factor in the majority of security breaches, with various industry reports attributing between 68% and 90% of incidents to human action or error. However, this is not a time to start pointing fingers. Organizations must acknowledge the reality that, inevitably, people make mistakes.
Every successful phishing attack is reliant on a trusted person to carry out a specific action, such as clicking on a hyperlink. If a phishing email gets through technical defenses, it will still fail if the recipient subsequently reports, deletes or does not engage with it. While enhancing their technical defenses with an AI-powered anti-phishing
Our Phishing Threat Trends Reports bring you the latest insights into the phishing landscape. Whether that’s emerging attacks or techniques that arestarting to gain traction, or new intel on established threats. In this edition, we look at how the “old” threat of ransomware continues to grow and walk through the “new” sophisticated tactics that cybercriminals
Citizens cannot opt out of giving government agencies or public institutions their most personal and private information, whether their financial details, their diseases and medications, or their children’s health and education records. When this personal data ends up on the dark web at the hands of an anonymous hacker, it is personally devastating; it also
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With the root cause of the majority of data breaches being traced to the human factor, security leaders who continue to invest solely on technology-based security layers run the risk of overlooking a best practise proven to reduce their vulnerability: security awareness training coupled with frequent simulated social engineering testing. This approach both helps raise
Abstract A key element in employees’ ability to take secure action when faced with potential security threats is knowing who within their organization they should communicate the threat to. In this report we examine the number of employees who know who to go to within their organization in the event of a security incident by
The human layer continues to be the most enticing attack vector for cybercriminals. Sadly, most organizations continue to neglect this easily penetrable entry point. Throughout 2021, the world continued to see significant year-over-year increases in phishing attacks. No industry vertical, size of business or geography was immune. The human layer was under attack in both
Research has been conflicted with regards to how often security awareness training needs to be undertaken in order to effectively implement changes in behaviors and knowledge (Stewart et al, 2012; Pattinson et al, 2017, Gundu er al, 2019). In this report we examine how clearly security instructions are understood by employees relative to the amount
The Security Culture Report is produced annually by KnowBe4 Research, allowing us to analyze the security culture of thousands of organizations globally. It is the largest report ever published on this topic, with an increasing data set year-over-year. The report offers the reader insight into the state of security measures and their impact, through the
