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CyberSecurity: Top-One-Percent Most Active Users Responsible for Most Security Risks
Users are your biggest threat to cybersecurity. A recent study by CloudLock found that key users often dominate application and data storage usage, and that it makes sense to focus on training the power users on security and best-practices. CloudLock refers to these most active users as the top 1 percent.
The CloudLock study found that the top 1 percent of users were responsible for 75 percent of cybersecurity risk in enterprises. The study suggests that a cost-effective way to dramatically reduce risk was to focus on the behavior of those top one percent users. These top one percent usually include super-privileged users, system administrators, software architects, and machine-based identities with application access.
User behavior can increase cyber risks. Dangerous behaviors include things like sharing files, downloading apps that contain malware, clicking on phishing links, reusing passwords, and sending out plain-text passwords. For example, the CloudLock study found that 70 percent of file sharing was with non-corporate identities.
Gil Zimmermann, CloudLock CEO, said that “Cyber attacks today target your users — not your infrastructure. As technology leaders wake up to this new reality, security programs are being reengineered to focus where true risk lies: with the user. The best defense is to know what typical user behavior looks like — and, more importantly, what it doesn’t.”
