Securing the human operating system: How to stop people being the weakest link in enterprise security ZDNet

A company can spend all the funds it wants on the latest cybersecurity technology, like firewalls, threat detection, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, but there is one security risk that can't blocked from entering the company networks: the employee. Whether they're being coerced into doing do it or not an employee could actively be working with hackers and cybercriminals to let them inside in your network. But in many cases it's a lax or ill-informed attitude to cybersecurity by staff which is potentially putting organisations at risk, with employees falling victim to phishing one of the major reasons that data breaches occur. "The human operating system is a challenge in itself, we know human beings are the weakest link" says Philipp Amann, head of strategy at Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). And the problem is only going to become trickier to solve because people are becoming more connected than ever, offering hackers additional opportunities to find that one weakness that allows them access.