According to a 2024 survey, 66 percent of respondents among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in the United States said human error is their organization's most significant cyber vulnerability. This represents a slight decrease compared with the previous year.

According to a 2024 survey, 84 percent of respondents among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in Saudi Arabia agreed that human error was their organization's biggest cyber vulnerability. This share also reached over 80 percent in Canada, France, and South Korea. By contrast, 66 percent of respondents in the United Kingdom considered human error their organization's biggest cyber vulnerability.

As of October 2023, the human element was involved in 68 percent of data breaches worldwide. Ransomware or extortion accounted for 32 percent, while errors contributed to 28 percent of incidents. Third-party factors, including software vulnerabilities, were involved in 15 percent of breaches.