Hackers are focusing more on businesses, particularly middle managers, rather than on consumers in order to exploit users’ psychology and circumvent IT security, according to a new report. The findings underscore how human behavior, not just system or software vulnerabilities, impacts enterprise security and what defenses are needed in a world in which everyone clicks. Security and compliance firm Proofpoint, which specializes in cloud-based solutions for threat protection, conducted the study, “The Human Factor 2015.” The report “validates the critical value of threat information and provides insight into how, when and where attacks are taking place,” said Kevin Epstein, Proofpoint vice president of Advanced Security and Governance, “The only effective defense is a layered defense, a defense that acknowledges and plans for the fact that some threats will penetrate the perimeter. Someone always clicks, which means that threats will reach users.” The company gathered data from its suite of threat protection products that are live within customer environments.
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