In February 2020, two firefighters died after running out of air during a search in a library. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report listed not only tactical inefficiencies ...

Incorporate vulnerability management into security operations workflows. Effective incorporation simplifies processes and reduces human intervention, which lowers errors. Use threat intelligence feeds ...

Amid frequent warnings about the advanced capabilities of cyber threat actors, targeting human frailties remains the primary initial access method for attackers. This reality has led to the ...

A persistent and often dominant vulnerability remains stubbornly unpatched: the human element. Industry studies paint a stark picture, consistently revealing that up to 95 percent of data breaches ...

Ransomware attacks may dominate the headlines, but the biggest threat to your company’s IT security is considerably more understated. Human error is something that ...

A new report from Splunk, "The Hidden Costs of Downtime," analyzes the impact of downtime on organizations and highlights the role simple human error often plays in ...

Many years ago, when Steve was in network operations for the University of North Carolina system, an amazing phenomenon occurred. Whenever Steve went on vacation, the network uptime skyrocketed. Of ...

In Deloitte's sixth annual Global Security Survey, people are the problem. "[P]eople continue to be an organization's greatest asset as well as its greatest worry," Adel Melek, global leader of ...

"Fueling this concern is the high number of cloud data breaches, with 44% of respondents reporting such an incident. Fourteen percent reported a breach in the past 12 months. Human error, issues with ...

Network outages can often be traced to four error-prone activities: fault analysis and response, configuration changes, scaling and failover, and security policies. You might have been alarmed to read ...