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Clearswift recently conducted a study into insider threats in organizations with 500 to 8,000 or more employees.

The new Clearswift Insider Threat Index.

Enterprises are

becoming larger and more convoluted

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Boundaries are

hard to define

and maintain

Employees are

increasingly interconnected

and ungovernable

The risk of a security breach occurring within your enterprise heightens day by day.

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Source: Clearswift — Research sample: 4,000 employees in the UK, Germany, USA and Australia; 504 information security professionals

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What are the biggest internal threats?

Removable storage devices/USBs

74% Social media has exacerbated the internal security threat.

The key risks associated with internal security threats are:

72% Internal security threats NOT taken seriously by the board.

69% Struggle to balance employee privacy against organizational control.

Not following data protection protocol

Unauthorized tools at work

Links within emails

Sharing usernames and passwords

So what’s the size of the threat?

Know your enemy.

Expect unexpected moves.

It’s not just your data at stake.

Why is the threat growing?

What motivates unscrupulous behaviour?

CISOs are switching game plans.

Right now 31% of an organization’s critical or sensitive information is potentially exposed to internal security threats.

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Profile of top offenders.

Average age 35

45%

88%Only

27% 73%

Have experienced an IT or security incident

in the last year.

Came from external sources.

Started inside the extended enterprise: employees,

ex-employees or trusted 3rd parties.

44%

39%

34%

31%

40% SAY that internal breacheshave grown 40% in the last 12 months.

37% think it’s ok to put business data at risk in some circumstances.

At least 22% say that increased workloads

and temporary staff have triggered an increase

in internal security risks.

Of employees have access to customer data.

To financial data at work.

Finance, HR and Legal/Compliance teams hold the most sensitive data and therefore pose the biggest risk.

36% think if they earned more, they would care

more about keeping business information safe.

Reputational

damage

Financial

penalties

Loss of business

revenues

65%

61% 51%

59% 40%

Male 79% Office-based 67% Middle

managers 37%Finance

department 48%

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