Human Error

1. Human error refers to mistakes made by employees which cyber criminals can use to exploit to launch a successful cyber security attack. Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

 

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2. Human error refers to general carelessness, failure of staff to get up to speed with new threats (e.g. mobility, social media, cloud), lack of expertise with websites and applications, and the failure of end users to follow security procedures and policies.
Source: (Channel Partners, 2016)

3. Human error includes mistakes like misconfiguring a router, incorrectly opening a firewall port, or failure to encrypt and inspect management traffic. The larger the infrastructure, the greater the risk for human error.
Source. (Tavve, 2017)