Regardless of your security protocol, there will always be threats. One of the most often forgotten outlets for attacks comes from insider threats. Sometimes these threats may be from angry employees wanting to sink your business, but more often than not, those behind insider threats don\u2019t have malicious intentions. Still, it\u2019s best to cover your bases and ensure that your organization isn\u2019t at risk from careless or negligent employees.<\/p>\n
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Insider threats are categorized as internal threats that are either malicious or negligent in nature, like irate employees, or those who just don\u2019t care about security best practices. Regardless of why the insider threat is a threat, you should be aware of these enlightening statistics concerning security and insider threats.<\/p>\n
Internal and External Threats: Reality vs Expectations<\/strong> Exposure of Sensitive Data to the End User<\/strong> Reaction Time to Insider Threats<\/strong> It\u2019s a bit surprising that organizations have taken this long to find out about insider threats, but regardless, it\u2019s proof that something needs to be done, sooner rather than later. Organizations need to have ways to keep track of who accesses what data, and how their data is handled.<\/p>\n The Ability to Respond to Insider Threats<\/strong> How Effective Preventative Measures Are<\/strong> Potential Vulnerabilities<\/strong> The Types of Insider Threats<\/strong> If your business doesn\u2019t know how to take the fight to insider threats, reach out to COMPANYNAME at PHONENUMBER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regardless of your security protocol, there will always be threats. One of the most often forgotten outlets for attacks comes from insider threats. Sometimes these threats may be from angry employees wanting to sink your business, but more often than not, those behind insider threats don\u2019t have malicious intentions. Still, it\u2019s best to cover your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96,45,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA study by Accenture and HfS Research claims that 69 percent of organizations have experienced the theft or destruction of data due to internal threats. This is compared to only 57 percent experiencing the same from external threats. These numbers are much different from their expectations, however; only 55 percent expect to become a victim of an internal threat, while 80 percent expect external threats to make trouble. The lesson: be prepared for anything, or you\u2019ll be prepared for nothing.<\/p>\n
\nThe Ponemon Institute issued a study claiming that 62 percent of users felt that they had access to data that they probably didn\u2019t need access to. To resolve this problem, employers can implement a user-access control system that restricts access to certain information on a per-user basis. For example, your average employee has no business accessing financial records, salary information, and personally identifiable information (Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, etc.).<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Ponemon, the reaction time to insider threats varied. Some organizations responded quickly, while others went months, or even years before finding out:<\/p>\n\n
\nSANS Institute reports that 31.9 percent of businesses have no way of fighting against insider threats, while 68.1 percent have tools to take the fight to them. It\u2019s surprising that the numbers are so low, but perhaps it\u2019s because administrators simply aren\u2019t aware of the activity themselves.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to SANS Institute, only 9 percent of organizations have techniques proven to prevent insider threats from becoming an issue. 42 percent have the tools, but they aren\u2019t used. 36.4 percent are currently implementing processes to mitigate insider threats, while 2.3 percent simply aren\u2019t concerned by them.<\/p>\n
\nMimecast suggests that 45 percent of companies claim that they\u2019re ill-equipped to handle malicious insider threats involving email security, which is more than any of the other kind email threat. Therefore, businesses need to keep an eye on what enters and exits the infrastructure via email.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Gartner, there are three types of insider threats. One, called a \u201csecond streamer\u201d (someone who uses the data from one job to obtain revenue from another job) consists of 62 percent of insider threats. 29 percent of insider threats are from the \u201ccareer launcher,\u201d or someone who took information with them as they left a company, while only 9 percent of insider threats could be classified as sabotage.<\/p>\n