📰 What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

Insider threats are one of the most difficult security challenges that organisations face. Staying safe isn’t simply about stopping criminal hackers from breaking into your systems, because the vulnerabilities already inside your organisation. A malicious threat can be an employee, contractor or business partner who is liable to leak sensitive information. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by

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