Cyberdudebivash

        Why 60% of Security Breaches Are Still Caused by People—And What You're Not Fixing     By CyberDudeBivash • September 29, 2025, 12:28 PM IST • CISO Strategic Briefing   For years, we've been telling a great lie in the cybersecurity industry. We tell it in our boardrooms, in our incident response reports, and in our budget justifications. The lie is that the "human element" is the weakest link in our security chain. We present statistics showing that over 60% of all data breaches involve a human factor—a clicked phishing link, a reused password, a misconfigured server. And while the statistic is true, the conclusion we draw is wrong. We have spent a decade and billions of dollars trying to "fix the user" with endless awareness training and phishing simulations, yet the number remains stubbornly high. Why? Because the user was never the problem. The problem is a security ecosystem built on broken processes, overwhelming friction, and a f...