Unintentional Security Issues

Easy the users and admins are humans and humans made mistakes 

There were many times that because a mistake made by a human the system fail an thats a real issue when for example that human works at AWS and unintentionally breaks the internet of half of USA.

It’s human to make errors but thankfully these errors can be 100% prevented. A mixture of strategies may help to prevent human errors from turning into security incidents.

When looking at attacks today, most people think external attacks are the biggest problem for organizations and where they need to focus most of their energy. However, it is important to distinguish between the source of an attack and the cause of damage. While the source of most attacks is absolutely external, the cause of damage is often the accidental insider. Adversaries recognize that it is too hard to directly break into servers and compromise an organization externally. It is much easier to target an insider, trick that person into opening an attachment or clicking on a link through social engineering, and then leverage his system as a point of compromise.  In many cases, the activity that is used to compromise an insider typically revolves around executable attachments, macros in office documents and HTML embedded content. What can an organization do to properly protect itself against insider threats? Most organizations believe greater security awareness is the answer to minimizing accidental insider attacks; this means ensuring employees better understand the dangers and exposures. While I am a big fan of awareness, organizations have to remember that no solution will solve every problem.  Awareness is good for basic attacks where there is something visibly wrong with the email or information received by the user. However, with advanced adversaries and more sophisticated phishing attacks, the information received looks identical to real communication, thus the reason it is often successful. Awareness will not help in this case. The solution to these sophisticated attacks is to remove the vector of attack.  Insider threats are often targeted by attachments in email or embedded Web links that are used to cause harm and compromise a system. The following are four categories of actionable controls that enterprises can put in place to minimize the harm of the unintentional insider attacks.