Panel: 90% of cyber attacks are occasioned by human error, and they're on the rise
February 17, 2021 7:15 am Last summer, an employee at a New Jersey-based company used a personal USB device to download something off the company system and, without meaning to, injected malware that resulted in a ransomware attack on the whole system. Perhaps he should have known better: according to Norris McLaughlin cybersecurity law Chair Rebecca Warren, he was the company’s head of IT. Ninety percent of cyber attacks are occasioned by human error, Warren said as a panelist on NJBIZ Cybersecurity Panel Discussion on Feb. 16. Though that statistic hasn’t changed, the number of such ...
Source: njbiz.com