Johannesburg, 02 Mar 2015
Vormetric, a leader in enterprise data security for physical, big data, public, private and hybrid cloud environments, today announced the results of its 2015 Insider Threat Report (ITR), conducted online on its behalf by Harris Poll and in conjunction with analyst firm Ovum, in autumn 2014, among 818 IT decision-makers in various countries, including 408 in the United States.
The report details striking findings around how US and international enterprises perceive security threats, the types of employees considered most dangerous, environments at the greatest risk for data loss and the steps organisations are taking to secure data.
In the past few years, rapid growth in the volume of sensitive information combined with new technologies has chipped away at the effectiveness of traditional endpoint protections and network perimeter security. In tandem come warranted concerns about the number and types of employees who have access to sensitive data. While Edward Snowden may be viewed as the "insider threat" poster child, not all employees have malicious intentions. Simply by having access, privileged insiders may unwittingly put data at risk - or be used by an outside actor as a conduit for siphoning data.
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