Bakerhostetler’s First Data Security Incident Response Report Shows Human Error Is Most Often To Blame

We are pleased to announce the release of the first BakerHostetler Data Security Incident Response Report, which provides insights generated from the review of more than 200 incidents that our law firm advised on in 2014. It looks at the nature of the threats faced by companies, as well as detection and response trends, and the consequences that follow. The report shows that human error was the number one cause of data security incidents we worked on last year, with employee negligence responsible for incidents 36% of the time. Other leading causes were theft by outsiders (22%), theft by insiders (16%), malware (16%) and phishing attacks (14%). The full report can be found here.