Elements of an Effective Cyber Security Awareness Program
Recurring attacks and the weakest link
Cyber security practitioners consider social engineering and phishing attack the most significant threat to their organization. In the CS Hub Mid-Year Market Report 2022, 75 percent of respondents cited social engineering/phishing attacks as the top threat to cyber security at their organization, followed by supply chain/third-party risks (36 percent) and lack of cyber security expertise (30 percent).
Phishing and social engineering attacks depend on human error instead of software defenselessness; employees are responsible for safeguarding against these attacks.
In Cyber Security, end users are the weakest link. Social engineers seek to exploit them to gain access to confidential information. An effective security awareness ...