The majority of data breaches over the last couple of years were caused by users sending emails to the wrong recipients - how can you stop this?

Welcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday, this week Tony is talking about users sending emails to the wrong recipient.

The majority of data breaches reported to the data commissioner, both locally and nationally, have involved users sending emails to the wrong recipients.

This is clearly a problem and many technical controls won't defend against this as this comes down to human error. Human error is the leading cause of data breaches today, because people make mistakes and break the rules. In many cases, people may not even realise they’re doing anything wrong.

If businesses want to keep their data safe, they need to start at the human level and create a people-centric approach to cyber security that focuses on educating and protecting their employees.

We can help provide controls that help to reinforce this human level and reduce instances of users send emails to the wrong recipients.