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Since 2008 when Verizon first began publishing its DBIR report it has consistently highlighted human error as the top contributor to breaches (74% in 2023). It’s become so widely accepted that most security practitioners simply assume that as a given and chalk it up as an unsolvable problem and move on to protecting networks, devices, and applications.