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Anatomy of Insider Risk: Why You Could Be Your Worst Enemy
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Faceless hackers halfway around the globe and disgruntled employees sneaking around the office in the middle of the night might be the stuff of nightmares for most IT security pros. But the truth is that the most common dangers to organizations come in much more mundane packaging than that. Sure, hackers and malicious insiders are real and credible threats. But some of the biggest problems in IT today may actually originate behind the keyboards of the same folks we share stories with around the water cooler. Download this white paper to learn the four steps to minimizing the risk from negligent insiders.

Anatomy of Insider Risk

Whether they’re employees looking to score customer data for their own financial gain, corporate spies working for the competition or simply saboteurs seeking to injure their employer for a perceived slight, malicious insiders are the type that are constantly on the lookout for weaknesses in IT systems that they can exploit to carry out their own devious missions.

Malicious insiders with visions of huge payoffs for caches of sensitive information scheme ways to leverage their access into cash infusions or career advancement. Don’t think this type of bad seed could have infiltrated your organization? Think again.

According to a recent study, 59 percent of laid-off and departing employees admit taking data with them. Of those, 79 percent say their former employer had a policy against the practice. The trouble is that only 15 percent of employers perform an audit of the documents that former employees take.

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