The corporate breaches that make the biggest headlines are targeted attacks carried out by skilled hackers. But while external cyberattacks pose a big risk to businesses, it’s easy for company leaders to overlook another potent threat: their employees.
Through bad security habits and a lack of basic cybersecurity hygiene, employees routinely put their employers’ networks at risk of attack. It’s not that they’re malicious; it’s just that there typically is plenty of room for improvement, and arguably, a certain degree of carelessness.
