{"id":5715,"date":"2015-10-07T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2015-08-26T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:36:16","slug":"cybersecurity-top-one-percent-most-active-users-responsible-for-most-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cybersecurity-top-one-percent-most-active-users-responsible-for-most-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberSecurity: Top-One-Percent Most Active Users Responsible for Most Security Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Users are your biggest threat to cybersecurity<\/a>. \u00a0A recent study by CloudLock<\/a> found that key users often dominate application and data storage usage, and that it makes sense to focus\u00a0on training the power\u00a0users\u00a0on\u00a0security and\u00a0best-practices. \u00a0CloudLock refers to these most active users as the top 1 percent.<\/p>\n

The CloudLock study found that the top 1 percent of users were responsible for 75 percent of cybersecurity risk in enterprises. \u00a0The study suggests that a cost-effective way to dramatically reduce risk was to focus on the behavior of those top one percent users. \u00a0These top one percent usually include super-privileged users, system administrators, software architects, and machine-based identities with application access.<\/p>\n

User behavior can increase cyber risks. \u00a0Dangerous behaviors include things like sharing files, downloading apps that contain malware, clicking on phishing links, reusing passwords, and sending out plain-text passwords. \u00a0For example, \u00a0the CloudLock study found that 70 percent of file sharing\u00a0was with non-corporate identities.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0The best defense is to know what typical user behavior looks like — and, more importantly, what it doesn’t.”<\/p>\n

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Users are your biggest threat to cybersecurity. \u00a0A recent study by CloudLock found that key users often dominate application and data storage usage, and that it makes sense to focus\u00a0on training the power\u00a0users\u00a0on\u00a0security and\u00a0best-practices. \u00a0CloudLock refers to these most active…<\/span><\/p>\n

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