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1. 8 CONVINCING STATISTICS
ABOUT INSIDER THREATS
The insider threat is at large. Major data breaches and financial consequences happen
when employees go rogue or when they’re simply negligent. Businesses are looking for
innovative ways to effectively eliminate the insider threat. Teramind.co uses employee
monitoring software to actively prevent information data breaches.
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There's a threat to data security that hasn't been considered. The
insider threat continues to grow. This threat potentially comes from
Bob in marketing, Susie the outside consultant or Charles the company
vender. Whether they have malicious intentions or not, these insiders
can have a formidable impact on your business data security.
THESE 8 STATISTICS WILL HAVE YOU SCHEDULING
AN INFORMATION SECURITY MEETING ASAP:
1
https://www.varonis.com/learn/ponemon-2016/
62% of business users report they
have access to company data that
they probably shouldn’t see.1
62%
62% of employees look to
establish a second stream of
income off of their employers’
sensitive data, 29% stole
information on the way out the
door to help future endeavors
and 9% were saboteurs.3
62%
3
http://blogs.gartner.com/anton-chuvakin/2016/05/09/our-understanding-insider-threats-paper-publishes/
55% of insider breaches result
from someone taking or being
granted privileges above their
pay grade.6
55%
https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/Verizon_data-breach-investigation-report-2015.pdf
7% of US businesses lost $1
million or more due to cybercrime
incidents in 2013.5
$1M
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/
files/what-we-do/policies/organized-crime-and-human-trafficking/corruption/experience-sharing-programme/docs/o.iskit-global-economic-crime-survey_en.pdf
45% of IT executives say
malicious insider attacks is one
of the risks that they’re most
unprepared for.2
45%
2
https://www.mimecast.com/resources/analyst-reports/Dates/2016/2/email-security-uncovered-mimecast-research-report/
55% of cyber attacks were
carried out by insiders in 2016.4
55%
4
http://www-05.ibm.com/services/europe/digital-whitepaper/security/growing_threats.html
43% of businesses need a month
or longer to detect employee’s
accessing unauthorized files.1
43%
1
https://www.varonis.com/learn/ponemon-2016/
31.5% of 2014 cybersecurity
incidents were acted by
malicious insiders.7
31.5%
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