Forrester Research: CISO’s Primer For Defining Human-Element Breaches
Explore Forrester’s recent findings on human-element breaches, highlighting how social engineering, AI misuse, and human error drive security incidents.

According to Forrester, 67% of enterprise security leaders reported a security breach in the past year, many of which stemmed from human-related vulnerabilities. Yet organizations often lack a consistent definition of human-related breaches or the risks they represent, leaving security teams with limited insight and incomplete defenses.
The CISO’s Primer For Defining Human-Element Breaches provides clear definitions for the full spectrum of human-element breaches, from social engineering and human error to insider threats and emerging risks like generative AI misuse and deepfakes. With these insights, security leaders can better recognize the scope of risk and design more effective mitigation strategies.
Access The CISO’s Primer For Defining Human-Element Breaches to learn:
The most common human-driven factors behind recent breaches.
How new risks such as AI misuse, narrative attacks, and deepfakes expand the threat landscape.
Why social engineering and phishing remain among the most common and costly attack methods.
Forrester’s recommended controls for managing human risk beyond awareness training.
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