{"id":2156,"date":"2011-06-10T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-06-10T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T15:00:38","slug":"security-human-error-is-greatest-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/security-human-error-is-greatest-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Security: Human Error is Greatest Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes we’re our own worst enemy. \u00a0Two-thirds of database breaches were found to be the result of either human error or perpetrated by a privileged user with inside access to the system. \u00a0That’s one of the results of a database security study<\/a> made by Joe McKendrick<\/a> and Unisphere Research<\/a> on behalf of Sybase <\/a>and Application Security, Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report is the result of a survey of 216 companies which use the Sybase database. \u00a0It notes an interesting false sense of security held by many of the companies. \u00a0On the one hand, 73 percent say that their database data is currently \u00a0securely protected and 56 percent say that any sort of data breach in the next 12 months would be extremely unlikely, with only 2 percent saying that some sort of breach in their system is ‘inevitable’. \u00a018 percent of organization report some sort of data breach occurring within the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

The breakdown of root causes of security incidents is as follows:<\/p>\n