Poor user practices and lack of end-user cybersecurity training the core sources for cybersecurity problems.
A lack of training or bad user behaviour has been named as the main cybersecurity problem facing IT professionals.
According to research from Kaseya, 89 percent of respondents cited a lack of training or bad user behaviour as their main cybersecurity problem, while user-related security issues cause the most distress for IT professionals with poor user practices (45 percent) and lack of end-user cybersecurity training (44 percent) cited as the core sources for cybersecurity problems.
When asked which cybersecurity issues have impacted their business, phishing ranked first at 58 percent, followed by computer viruses or malware at 44 percent, and business email compromise at 34 percent.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
