ABSTRACT
- With human error often referenced as the greatest threat to organisational well-being, the impact of activity or inactivity within an organisation and the potential ramifications, this is in the forefront of everyone's mind because of GDPR compliance and other jurisdictional data privacy requirements.
Cybercrime is very complex and with recent studies showing that expenditure to protect from this threat could rise to £250 billion by 2023, this is a great concern for anyone working in the Cyber Security space and especially now with the growth of phishing threat from the Covd-19 pandemic.
In the UK, organisations have to ensure that they comply with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 as well as GDPR, which has also been the basis of most global privacy laws.
This chapter will look at the correlation between human behaviour and organisational culture that has the potential to undermine GDPR compliance and lead to cyber security and data privacy breaches. Most organisations have invested heavily in technology and governance, urgent focus on the human factor and in particular online behaviour and cultural matters is now paramount to successful manage cyber security risks.
