Social engineering

The human factor in cybersecurity

If there is one concept that information security experts generally agree on, it is that the human factor is the most vulnerable element of any security system. According to a private sector survey carried out in 2017 by Carnegie Mellon University, the companies consulted estimated, on average, that 27% of the cyber incidents they had suffered in the year had originated from a person belonging to the organization, or insider (Trzeciak, 2019), either as the author of the attack or as an unconscious facilitator.

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