Underestimating the dangers within: mitigating the insider cyber threat

(Image credit: iStock) The cybersecurity risks that businesses are often most concerned about come from external attacks. But at the same time, threats – both by accident or with malicious intent – by their own employees are overlooked, despite accounting for 58% of cybersecurity breaches in recent years.As a result, a large proportion of businesses may lack any strategy to address insider risks, leaving them vulnerable to financial, operational and reputational harm.Understanding the riskInsider threat has always had the mystique of espionage and spies – but usually it’s nothing of the sort. At one end of the spectrum, you’ve got people who are trying to get access to company data and then accidentally share information, or disgruntled employees. And on the other end, you have nation state actors who could be attempting to access sensitive information from government and corporations or disrupt critical national infrastructure.It’s a delicate issue for businesses to tackle, because anybody could intentional… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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