The spate of cyber attacks has significantly remained on the increase, and there are no signs of it slowing down — not with the continued reliance of individuals, small businesses, educational institutions, and of course governments around the world on Cyberspace. This reliance has made cyberspace to generate a vast and unending pool of sensitive data and information which are of very high value, hence making it a gold mine and prime target for cyber criminals to exploit. If we examine this from the perspective of information technology versus the humans who generate, process and store/transmit the information, we can try to determine which aspect is the most vulnerable to the tactics and techniques of the cyber “Bad Actors’’. Over time it has been determined that the weak-link in the chain is the “end-user” side. To a considerable extent, the Information Technology security side has matured over the years and is constantly being developed. Several reports have attributed a very high p...
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