Human Error Still Top Cause of Security Breaches
Apple PodcastsQuestions Answered in This Episode
- Why do misconfigured APIs account for two-thirds of cloud breaches?
- How does shadow IT create security vulnerabilities in healthcare organizations?
- What makes human error the persistent top cause of security incidents?
- Why do health IT leaders struggle securing cloud environments compared to on-premise?
- How can process and verification reduce human error in healthcare security?
About This Episode
Human error has been the source of most breaches since I can remember. What can be done about it?
FTA
The threat intelligence player drew on multiple data sources, including dark web analysis, pen-testing data, incident response cases and threat intelligence to compile the 2021 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report.
It revealed that attackers are actively looking to exploit weaknesses in enterprise protection, many of which come about due to human error.
To this end, over half of breaches came about as a result of shadow IT, when systems were spun up without being subject to corporate security policy — and therefore lacked vulnerability and risk assessments and hardened security protocols.
Additionally, two-thirds of the incidents studied involved improperly configured APIs.
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