58% Information Security Incidents Attributed to Insider Threat

The genie of company data,” Guy Bunker, Senior vice president of products at Clearswift, suggested to Infosecurity, “is out of the bottle. In the old days,” he explained, “company data sat on a server in the data center protected by access control and perimeter defenses. Now its everywhere.” He was explaining the findings of the Clearswift report, The Enemy Within: an emerging threat, which seeks to quantify a known but not really understood contemporary issue: the insider threat.
End user expectations,” says the report, “combined with their desire for greater flexibility and autonomy, has seen organizations attempt to empower employees whilst balancing their security priorities.” But the IT department is struggling. Eighty-seven percent of IT leaders (93% in the finance industry) believe the use of new technology requires constant change and evolution within security policy; but 72% admit to difficulty in keeping up.