HRM-MEAS-24Term
Human element share
The share of breaches in the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report where a person was a gating factor in one of the actions: 60% in the 2025 report and 62% in the 2026 report. Always state the year.
Example
A CISO cites the 2026 figure in a budget request and links the report page.
Also called
3How analysts, standards and vendors name the same idea.
- human elementVerizon DBIR
- human elementForrester
- human elementSANS
Sources
3Related terms
2"Human element share" (HRM-MEAS-24), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/terms/human-element-share
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