{"id":205741,"date":"2025-02-06T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-human-element-of-risk-management"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:17:12","slug":"the-human-element-of-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-human-element-of-risk-management","title":{"rendered":"The Human Element Of Risk Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-element-of-risk-management.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Vincent Danen is the Vice President of Product Security at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Red Hat\"><em>Red Hat<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cyber threats are an everyday reality. Attackers exploit the unwitting, stealing confidential and sensitive information through online scam campaigns. Data breach prevention is only as strong as the weakest link, and, in most cases, that link is human. As I mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/councils\/forbestechcouncil\/2024\/08\/08\/invest-wisely-to-reduce-your-companys-exposure-to-breaches\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"previous article\">previous article<\/a>, it is reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecinstitute.com\/resources\/security-awareness\/human-error-responsible-data-breaches\/#:~:text=Human%20error%20is%20responsible%20for%2074%25%20of%20data%20breaches,-November%2030%2C%202023&text=The%20number%20of%20cybersecurity%20incidents, gets%20more%20alarming%20every%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"74% of data breaches\">74% of data breaches<\/a> are caused by human error.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msspalert.com\/news\/fbi-covid-19-cyberattacks-spike-400-in-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"FBI report\">FBI report<\/a>, there was a 400% spike in cyberattacks during the Covid-19 pandemic. The human element is a significant vulnerability in cybersecurity, often overlooked in favor of technological solutions. Many organizations focus on addressing software vulnerabilities when employees remain the weakest link in the organization\u2019s security program. Even the most secure software, with all vendor security patches applied, is in danger if the human aspect of risk management is neglected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Danen is the Vice President of Product Security at Red Hat. Cyber threats are an everyday reality. Attackers exploit the unwitting, stealing confidential and sensitive information through online scam campaigns. Data breach prevention is only as strong as the weakest link, and, in most cases, that link is human. As I mentioned in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}