Insider Data Breaches Are Soaring

According to a Forrester’s 2019 report, insiders commit 53 percent of all data breaches. A Ponemon report also discovered that the frequency of insider-related breaches surged by 47 percent in just two years, with 60 percent of organizations suffering more than 30 incidents each year.

What’s going on? Why this spike in insider data breaches? Are these internal threats more difficult to detect?

MSPs must understand this threat trend to better protect their clients, so let’s find out.

5 REASONS INSIDER BREACHES ARE ON THE RISE

1. Employee Permissions

More than 50 percent of organizations cite privileged users as their greatest insider threat. Of course, the people who possess the greatest access to data have more opportunity to compromise that data, whether intentionally or accidentally. Most often, the violation is inadvertent. But regardless of intent, a data breach is trickier to detect when the perpetrator has permissions.