Security Awareness Training Reduces Phishing Success

Human error is the soft underbelly of cybersecurity. According to IBM, it plays a role in roughly 95% of breaches, a statistic that looms especially large in K–12 education. Schools are uniquely vulnerable, with thousands of users, limited IT resources, and an environment built on openness and trust. “People talk about humans as the weakest link,” says Randy Rose, vice president of security operations and intelligence at the Center for Internet Security. “And the reason they get that rap is because the No. 1 factor in a majority of cyber incidents is social engineering, mostly phishing emails…