Much attention goes to external sources of threat and the bad guys outside our organization. But, how about the insiders that we need to trust?
Knowledge is king or at least is what you get paid for… So, when employees leave to greener pastures, they often take with them information created when on/in the job. With tenure being less than 5 years on average, loyalty may not seem as valued – in a digital world where mobility and collaboration is the norm i.e. BYOD, Wi-Fi, USB, Cloud, IoT.
Sure there’s things such as legal hold or data recovery backups for missing/destroyed data, but numbers show 60% of organization polled had reported insider attempts to steal data and 93% believe they are vulnerable. Source Code42
So, who’s monitoring them? Who would even know? What cost does it have for any organization? What competitive advantage does it results in?
Key contributors and top threats include lack of: layered security architecture, data leakage protection, security awareness, systems vulnerability patching, mobile device management, removable media security…
For more more info, check out IBM X-Force Security Systems report , CSOOline, CyLab
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