Verizon Report Brings the Critical Discussion of Insider Threats Back to the Boardroom

The list of the biggest dangers to information security are long for 2019, and ever-evolving. A 2019 list developed by the Information Security Forum highlighted ransomware hijacking IoT, premeditated internet outages disrupting trade and privileged insiders being coerced into giving up their companies’ critical data as some of the top threats. The recent publication of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) zeroes in on the escalating danger of insider threats, adding to the mountain of research and incidents bumping this discussion back up to boardrooms as their businesses’ bottom lines become more vulnerable from the potential impact of an insider threat causing a data breach, stolen intellectual property and other risks.
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