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Ask HN: What's your experience with human errror in cybersecurity?

1 pointsby astrobase_goover 8 years ago
I&#x27;m a student writing a capstone project on how human error contributes to cybersecurity breaches and hacking incidents. It&#x27;s easy to find news articles and published security surveys [see {0..3}] that generally point to aggregate data, but I&#x27;m looking for details from actual IT &#x2F; security professionals on their actual experiences with breaches.<p>Have you ever responded to a breach or incident you thought was caused by human error? Was it a problem caused by an end user (phished, spearphished, etc) or by someone else in IT (forgot to apply a patch, ports left open, system misconfigured, etc)? What&#x27;s something that your organization is doing to meet and reduce these threats?<p>Answer any questions you&#x27;d like, thanks for helping!<p>[EDIT: Formatting.]<p>[0] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securityintelligence.com&#x2F;the-role-of-human-error-in-successful-security-attacks&#x2F;<p>[1] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shrm.org&#x2F;resourcesandtools&#x2F;hr-topics&#x2F;risk-management&#x2F;pages&#x2F;human-error-top-cause-data-breaches.aspx<p>[2] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-01.ibm.com&#x2F;common&#x2F;ssi&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;ssialias?htmlfid=SEW03073USEN<p>[3] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;cybersecuritys-human-factor-lessons-from-the-pentagon

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