Top 5 Cyber-Threats And How To Prevent Them
VentureBeat, February 9th, 2023
Cybercrime is prominent and will continue to evolve amid a growing cyber threat landscape. When organizations scale, the risk increases with their reliance on cloud-based systems, an expanding global workforce and attackers' more sophisticated social engineering tactics. Security professionals are not only challenged with fixing these issues, but tasked with conducting educational training and running cybersecurity awareness programs.
Here are the top five cyber-threats that continue to plague organizations today, and how security teams can prevent cyberattackers from breaching critical business data.
Broken access control - the number one cyber threat
Broken access control continues to be a major problem for organizations. Permission pathways need to be defined, because when users have access to more than the intended information for their role, it exposes private data, which can ultimately lead to a breach of confidentiality. According to the Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) 2021 report, broken access control is listed as the number one threat, having moved up in the rankings from the fifth spot in the 2017 report, and consequently is one of the top five most common vulnerabilities.