Poor training a major contributor to organizational risk, study says

Complex, lengthy, and repetitive training methods identified by employees as a blocker to learning cyber and compliance fundamentals.

A Human Risk Review by security firm SoSafe says that as innovation is creating a troubling cybersecurity landscape, the biggest threat to many organizations is poor decision-making by humans.

Over 1,000 security professionals from across Europe were surveyed, while 9,000 simulated phishing emails were sent as part of the data-gathering process.

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