While security leaders often pay with their jobs for lapses that lead to breaches at their companies (think Target and Uber), organizations long have struggled with how to handle everyday employees who step outside the bounds of security protocols.
The security training authority has confirmed to SC Media that an employee was tricked into downloading malicious code, which then caused emails to be automatically forwarded to the attacker.
Working professionals are blaming stress, time pressure, fatigue and distractions for lapses in safe cyber practices – and current conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic may only be exacerbating the problem. According to a newly published research report from Tessian, a survey of 2,000 working professionals in the U.S. and UK found that 43 percent…
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