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How social engineering fueled the cyber-attack business

Human error and insurance companies both play a role in this era when computer crimes have become a business.

By Michael Carr | Updated on July 04, 2017

Since cyber-attacks have emerged as a business risk, cyber protection has focused on keeping digital perimeters protected by negating and mitigating direct attacks. Traditionally, this meant having the right technical solutions, such as firewalls or patch management governance, in place to keep malicious code out of a network.

But in today’s environment, this focus is too narrow It is clear that now the weakest link in a chain of cyber defense is usually not technological. It’s people.

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