Insider Threats

Despite evidence that suggests staff dissatisfaction increases insider threats, 78 percent of small and medium enterprises (SME) are more concerned with external IT threats, such as viruses and spam, than employee-led information theft, according to a white paper from GFI, a software developer.

Add to this another survey from RSA, a security service provider, that discovered that employees that should know better regularly engage in risky behavior that jeopardizes sensitive business information.

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