Make no mistake about it: An organization’s employees are its biggest data-security liabilities. This can be true even of the most loyal and honest personnel, who may nevertheless fall victim to social engineering attacks, such as phishing, or allow their devices or security credentials to be stolen through simple carelessness.
Employees too often are undertrained and unaware of the responsibility they possess as caretakers of sensitive company and customer data, in which even the simple act of leaving a credentialed session unattended can lead to a costly data breach that can be devastating to a company’s reputation.
