BrandPost: Insider Risk vs. Malware – Why Insider Risk Requires a New Approach

BrandPost: Insider Risk vs. Malware – Why Insider Risk Requires a New Approach

Security teams focused on mitigating data loss threats are increasingly facing challenges that come from the way their own coworkers across the business get their jobs done. Years of digitization, hybrid and remote work, and empowering employees to collaborate effectively from anywhere has changed the structure of data in most organizations.

Annual Code42 Data Exposure Report research shows the Insider Risk problem keeps getting bigger. Employees are 85% more likely to leak or take data today than pre-pandemic, and there’s a 1 in 3 chance that you’re losing critical intellectual property every time an employee leaves the company. But it’s not just the proliferation of cloud tools and remote work that’s accelerating the problem. In many ways, the mindset and strategies that security teams use to attack insider threats are actually aggravating the issue.

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