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80% Of Industrial Security Incidents Caused By Internal Issues

Critical infrastructure industries in particular, such as utilities, transportation and natural resource producers, together with the communities and economies they serve, face not only particularly damaging outcomes from cyber security attacks, but also need to deal with significant complexity due to the scale of their operations. Fortinet states that almost 80 percent of industrial security incidents in critical infrastructure organizations are caused by unintentional internal issues such as software misconfigurations from human error and malfunctioning network protocols. “Organizations across multiple industries today face an evolving threatscape and growing pressure to...