The human mistakes

We can blame cloud-based data breaches on faceless hackers or incompetent service providers, but the source of risk is often much closer to home

Jonathan Shaw, senior product manager with Sophos Cloud
Jonathan Shaw, senior product manager with Sophos Cloud

Human error. More often than not, system failures, loss of data and security breaches have a prominent human component to them.

The security challenge is compounded by our increasing mobility and the consumerisation of IT. We now expect to be able to access business applications from any location, any device or from any network, whether that’s a public hotspot – whose security profile we may be completely ...