More than ever, cybersecurity is a major challenge not to be neglected.

With thousand of vendors selling tools to detect, prevent and recover from cyberattacks, there is plenty of money being spent on solutions.

ESI tapped into its security team’s many years of experience to develop this list of the 10 most common cybersecurity mistakes they’ve encountered and ways to avoid them. While technology is obviously part of the solution to counter threats, most of these gaps can be filled by developing robust policies, training users and following best practices, without neglecting the monitoring and detection of your organization’s activities on known malicious Dark Web sites.