Security News > 2022 > May > Verizon Report: Ransomware, Human Error Among Top Security Risks

Ransomware, supply-chain threats and how organizations and their employees are their own worst enemy when it comes to security are some of the key takeaways of Verizon's annual report on the last 12 months of cyber-attacks.

Some findings seem consistent with what the report has highlighted since its inception in 2008, one security professional observed.

"The most important research by and for the cybersecurity industry is out and it feels like the movie GroundHog Day, where we are waking up to the same results year after year since the first report in 2008," John Gunn, CEO of security firm Token, wrote in an email to Threatpost.

Human error continues to be a dominant trend for how and why breaches occur, researchers found.

Security experts expressed little surprise over the "Human-element" finding, which is one that's plagued the tech industry since even before security and the whole industry around it was a thing, noted one security professional.

The only way to solve security issues created by human error is through education, whether it be about misconfiguration errors, the importance of patching, stolen credentials, and or just "Regular errors, such as when a user accidentally emails the wrong person data," Grimes said.

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