Deloitte: People are still weakest security link

In the EMEA region, 71 percent of financial services institutions have experienced repeated external breaches over the past 12 months, compared to 65 percent of financial services institutions worldwide. The major causes of external breaches were customers compromised by viruses and worms, and email attacks through spam, phishing and pharming.

However, a high percentage of security breaches were caused by employees. Thirty-one percent of EMEA financial institutions experienced repeated internal IT security breaches over the past year while, globally, the figure is 30 percent. Employee IT security breaches were caused by misconduct, intentional action, errors or omissions.

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