All it takes is one. One employee—it could be anyone—that presents considerable risk to your organization, either unknowingly or maliciously paid IBMSecurity
If you don’t have a calculator handy, that’s roughly 287 phishing emails per worker, per year. That’s more than one per workday, folks.And honestly, if you’re an IT or Security pro reading this, you already know the big, scary number is really just a factoid. All that matters is whether the number of workers that end up taking the bait is greater than zero.One employee—it could be anyone—that presents considerable risk to your organization, either unknowingly or maliciously.
In fact, the vast majority of insider threats typically amount to a system administrator misconfiguring a server or a C-Level executive finding themselves the victim of a sophisticated social engineering attack. The former case actually accounts for 43 percent of the 2.7 billion compromised records in 2018, according to the 2019 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.Beyond this, there are myriad ways an unsuspecting employee can suddenly become patient zero.
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