(CyberHeist) Is security awareness training doing the job of protecting organizations from employee negligence? Michael Bruemmer of Experian Data Breach Resolution tells us where awareness is falling short, and what companies can do to improve. He helps companies with data breaches and knows what he is talking about - they handle more than 3,500 of these per year. 

Despite an increase in security awareness training, and concern about awareness by top-level management at companies, data breaches continue to happen through employee negligence, whether malicious or not. 

In the latest episode of Security Sessions, Joan Goodchild spoke with Bruemmer about a recent survey that said companies are unprepared to stop employee-caused data breaches. Worth 8 minutes of your time, watch this on a break:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3125093/security/why-your-employees-are...

"As cyberattacks grow in frequency and intensity, state governments have responded by adopting cyber security disruption plans, and the vast majority of states have now adopted a cyber security framework based on national standards and guidelines. 

According to the recent report “The 2016 State CIO Survey” from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), 94 percent of states CIOs have now adopted such a cyber security framework. That is up from 80 percent in 2015. 

Further, 85 percent of state CIOs have now developed security awareness training for workers and contractors, and 77 percent have created a culture of information security in state government." More:
http://www.information-management.com/news/security/cyber-threats-forcin...