Full disclosure: Benchmarking data reveals the human error in privacy incidents
https://iapp.org/news/a/full-disclosure
This month, we are returning to this topic to dig deeper into incident intent classifications and how they can be further broken down into specific scenarios. To level set, looking at data from January 2017 through July 2018, we can see that the vast majority of incidents fall into one intent classification:
- Intentional, malicious intent: 0.86 percent of incidents.
- Intentional, not malicious intent: 2.78 percent of all incidents.
- Unintentional or inadvertent intent: 96.33 percent of all incidents.
The numbers show that unintentional or inadvertent incidents — those typically caused by human error rather than malicious intent such as hacking — are by far the most common.
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