• ​​74% of breaches involved the human element, including errors, privilege misuse, stolen credentials, or social engineering.

• ​Human error (including misconfigurations or falling for phishing) was a top contributing factor.

• Human error is still the biggest cyber vulnerability

• ​Social engineering attacks (e.g., phishing, pretexting) increased and often target end users with inadequate training.

• ​Many small and mid-sized businesses lack continuous security training despite employees being on the front lines of risk.

• ​Organizations with security awareness training and incident response plans in place saved ~$1.5 million per breach.

• 83% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud.

• Average cost of a data breach: $4.45 million.

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