When security breaches make news headlines, they tend to be about nefarious hackers in another country or related to some kind of catastrophic failure of technology. However, employees occasionally make mistakes without realizing how dangerous they can be to the organization’s cybersecurity, from sending valuable data to incorrect recipients via email to misconfiguring assets to allow for unwanted access.
Indeed, human mistakes reportedly account for 25% to a third of data and intellectual property breaches within companies, and the average cost of inadvertent breaches from human error is estimated to up to $3.5 million annually, without even including breaches resulting from employee willful misconduct. Many of the biggest breaches over the last decade would actually not have happened but for some form of human error.
Our guest today, Adi Gillat, shares her experience about these breaches, and to what extent IP rights are at risk, particularly in the specific context of a pandemic that has impacted all businesses for the last few months. Adi has been an IP, IT and privacy lawyer for almost 25 years, advising Israeli technology companies on complextech transactions and compliance matters. Ranked among the top transactional IP lawyers in Israel, Adi is a founding partner at H-F & Co. based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and leads its intellectual property, IT and Tech-Transactions practice. She is a licensed attorney both in Israel and in the U.S., where she also practiced before IP transactional and litigation law.
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About Adi Gillat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adi-gillat-8a39371/
Also of interest:
- Harvard Business Review, The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats are inside your Company (link to https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-are-inside-your-company)
- Infosecurity Magazine https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/employees-taking-data/
- Business Insights, Addressing Human Error causes Security Breaches (link to https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/addressing-human-error-causes-security-breaches)
- Forbes, Remote Work involves Cybersecurity Risks (link to https://www.forbes.com/sites/carrierubinstein/2020/04/10/beware-remote-work-involves-these-3- cyber-security-risks/#279daaf461c4)
- Venafi, article about 7 Data Breaches caused by Human Error (link to https://www.venafi.com/blog/7-data-breaches-caused-human-error-did-encryption-play-role)
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