On Data Breaches: Is Our Employees Learning?

The article reports on a Ponemon/Experian survey finding that organizations are poorly prepared for insider risk: employees lack adequate training on phishing, cloud and mobile threats, leadership engagement and budgets are often insufficient, and incentives to report or prevent data loss are rare; more than half of surveyed companies had experienced breaches tied to negligent or malicious insiders. The study recommends stronger training (including gamification), clearer incentives and consequences, and improved leadership to reduce insider-related data breaches.