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Human Errors - substantiated and proven

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:58:54 GMT

Hi All

This is a great piece of research from OAIC Australia, proving the extent and impact of human errors causing major cyber security issues?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3633188/human-errors-compromising-australian-government-data-more-than-cybercriminals.html?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Title%3A%20Human%20errors%20compromising%20Australian%20government%20data%20more%20than%20cybercriminals&utm_campaign=CSO%20Australia%20Data%20Security%20Briefing&utm_term=CSO%20Australia%20Data%20Security%20Briefing&utm_date=20210913231455&huid=b06b33f3-e29f-4a39-8582-63d7887b620f

Any more research to support or other references?

Regards

Caute_Cautim

Re: Human Errors - substantiated and proven

Steve-Wilme — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:03:37 GMT

Unfortunately this doesn't surprise me. Emailing the wrong recipient, replying to all, sending personal data to organisations with whom you have no contract/sharing agreement etc. are all too common.

Re: Human Errors - substantiated and proven

dcontesti — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:21:22 GMT

The unfortunate part of this is that you can change "Australia" to almost any country.

When I started in Security (oh too many years ago), I saw a presentation by William H. Murray and he said that 85% of all security issues were related to humans (typically insiders).....of course being a newbie to the field, I thought he was stretching the truth.....He wasn't and this is still the case.

Thanks for the article.