{"id":27,"date":"2015-12-10T06:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.founditdata.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-12-10T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:58:06","slug":"employee-error-leading-cause-of-data-breaches-new-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/security\/employee-error-leading-cause-of-data-breaches-new-survey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Error Leading Cause of Data Breaches, New Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.founditdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BN-BR420_waleck_G_20140225143647.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/www.founditdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BN-BR420_waleck_G_20140225143647-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Code\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BN-BR420_waleck_G_20140225143647-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BN-BR420_waleck_G_20140225143647.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A company\u2019s cybersecurity is only as strong as its weakest link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployee error\u201d turns out to be the most common reason for a data breach at companies, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.com\/aboutacc\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/accfoundationstateofcybersecurityreportrelease.cfm\">new cybersecurity report<\/a> released Wednesday by the Association of Corporate Counsel. This means the breach occurred as the result of a mistake the employee made, such as accidentally sending an email with sensitive information to someone outside the company.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which contained survey responses from more than 1,000 in-house lawyers in 30 countries, found that 30% of breaches this year occurred as a result of employee error. Other common reasons for a breach included unauthorized access by insiders intending to steal company data and phishing attacks, when third parties send spam emails designed to trick employees into giving up their personal information.<\/p>\n<p>The findings highlight how easy it is for cybercriminals to take advantage of negligent employees. For instance, hackers in a recent case allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-charges-nine-in-big-insider-trading-scheme-1439295551\">stole information from newswire companies<\/a> by sending phishing emails to employees and then put that information on overseas servers for financial traders to access.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers in the healthcare industry reported the highest number of breaches, followed by insurance, manufacturing and retail, according to the survey. Experts have said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/health-insurer-anthem-hit-by-hackers-1423103720\">health companies are especially vulnerable<\/a> because they hold sensitive information, including people\u2019s prescriptions and illnesses, that would be valuable to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Although cyber risk has traditionally been handled by companies\u2019 IT departments, the survey found that most in-house lawyers expect their role in cybersecurity to increase next year, despite the fact that only 10% of lawyers surveyed had a portion of their budget allocated explicitly to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the survey respondents said their company has cybersecurity insurance; among those, 68% had coverage valued at $1 million or more. Of the lawyers who have experienced a breach, only 19% said their insurance policy fully covered the related damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company\u2019s cybersecurity is only as strong as its weakest link. \u201cEmployee error\u201d turns out to be the most common reason for a data breach at companies, according to a new cybersecurity report released Wednesday by the Association of Corporate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/security\/employee-error-leading-cause-of-data-breaches-new-survey-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fidcyber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}