Saudi Human Awareness Needs. A Survey in How Human Causes Errors and Mistakes Leads to Leak Confidential Data with Proposed Solutions in Saudi Arabia

Recently human errors have become an increasingly high factor in security breaches that may affect confidential data and most of the cyber data breaches are caused by human errors. With one individual mistake, the attacker will gain access to the entire network and bypass the implemented access controls without any immediate detection. Unaware employees will be vulnerable to any social engineering cyber-attacks. Providing security awareness to People is part of the company protection process, the cyber risks cannot be reduced by just implementing technology, the human awareness of security will significantly reduce the risks which encourage changes in staff cyber-awareness. In this paper we will focus on human awareness and human needs to continue the required security education level. We will review human errors and introduce a solution to avoid the breach from occurring again. Recently Saudi Arabia faced many attacks with different methods of social engineering. As Saudi Arabia has become a target to many countries and individuals, we needed to initiate a defense mechanism that begins with awareness to keep our privacy and protect the confidential data against possible intended attacks.