Official Insider Threats Summit Media Center

An insider threat is a security incident that originates within the targeted organization such as an employee (current or former), contractor, business partner or, believe it or not, a board member. In fact, according to IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report: 24% of the breaches are caused by...

Don’t underestimate the human aspect of insider threats.Employee negligence is to blame for 64 % of total cybersecurity threats.Disgruntled employees can be motivated by financial gains after resigning, involuntary retrenchment or being fired, while some are driven by the gains from pure sabotage. Criminal insiders can slowly extract data over...