Networking: Human error largely to blame

CHICAGO, April 17 (UPI) -- What's the most grave IT security threat today? Hackers? Overly complicated corporate networks? None of the above, experts are telling United Press International's Networking column. Good, old-fashioned human error -- not nefarious, new technologies or super-sophisticated computer geeks, holed up in a shack near the Caspian Sea by the Russian mafia -- are to blame for about 60 percent of IT security breaches.
A new survey, a copy of which was provided to Networking, by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), said human error is increasing as an IT problem. Last year, only 47 percent of security breaches were blamed on human error alone. By Gene Koprowski
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