While cyber threats continue to be a massive drain on business productivity, there is another, less obvious vulnerability: unintentional employee error. Indeed, a majority of businesses say that simple human error is their leading cause of data loss, according to a survey from StorageCraft.
Among survey respondents, 61 percent reported that their company had suffered a data loss over the last two years. More striking is that 67 percent of respondents said human error—everyday mistakes made by employees—was the primary reason for data loss and system outages. While human error, such as weak passwords and "dirty" work environments, can be the pathway to security hacks, it can also wreak havoc far greater than that of a third party with malicious intent.