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1 in 4 employees would steal company information to secure their next job

August 28, 2019

According to a survey of 476 IT security professionals at Black Hat USA 2019, nearly one in four (24%) said they would take company information to help apply for a position at …

Identifying evasive threats hiding inside the network

August 22, 2019

There is no greater security risk to an organization than a threat actor that knows how to operate under the radar. Malicious insiders and external cybercriminals are getting …

Damaging insider threats rise to new highs in the past year

July 26, 2019

70 percent of organizations are more frequently seeing insider attacks, with 60 percent experiencing one or more within the last 12 months, and 68 percent feeling “extremely …

Insider attacks still far more difficult to detect and prevent than external cyber attacks

July 8, 2019

A recent survey conducted by Gurucul of more than 320 IT security experts, found that 15 percent of people said they would delete files or change passwords upon exiting a …

Human error still the cause of many data breaches

June 17, 2019

With the incidence of reported data breaches on the rise, more than half of all C-suite executives (C-Suites) (53%) and nearly three in 10 Small Business Owners (SBOs) (28%) …

How privileged insiders threaten the security of global organizations

June 6, 2019

A new global survey from BeyondTrust explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations in the U.S., APAC, Europe and the Middle East have over employees, …

Companies face regulatory fines and cybersecurity threats, still fail to protect sensitive data

April 30, 2019

22% of a company’s folders are accessible, on average, to every employee, according to the new report from the Varonis Data Lab, which analyzed more than 54 billion files. The …

GE trade secret theft case demonstrates need for document behavior monitoring

April 29, 2019

A former GE engineer and a Chinese national have been formally charged with 14 counts of economic espionage by the U.S. Department of Justice after stealing trade secrets from …

Employers should develop cybersecurity protocols and invest more in employee training programs

April 25, 2019

Organizations want to trust their employees when it comes to cybersecurity, but to do so, they need to better leverage technology. The ObserveIT global survey of 600 IT …

Which employees receive the most highly targeted email-borne threats?

April 24, 2019

Workers in R&D/Engineering are the most heavily targeted group of employees within organizations, a new Proofpoint report says, and lower-level employees are at a higher …

Manufacturing sector most vulnerable to insider threats

April 15, 2019

Almost three quarters of the 650+ international IT professionals Gurucul canvassed said they are vulnerable to insider threats, and ranked user error (39%) and malicious …

Only 12% of enterprises are consistently able to detect insider threats

April 5, 2019

73 percent of IT professionals believe that insider attacks have become more frequent in the past year. Additionally, 59 percent said that their organizations experienced at …

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