Insider Threats and Predictions

INSIDER THREATS AND PREDICTIONS Just a Glimpse of What Employees Steal 66% have taken or would take information they had been involved in creating 12%. steal information they believe would be helpful in their job 18%. of employees took product/service roadmaps 217. of employees took company proposals 46% of employees took presentations. 187. of employees took strategic plans 33% of employers were hard pressed over USB drive sharing this concern globally. usage 48-10 of IT professionals responded that employees are dealing with more information than ever before. 6670 of data breaches are due to employee and system error according to Ponemon's 2013 Data Breach Report. 39%. of IT professionals worldwide were more concerned about 557o of small businesses had a data breach and 53 percent of those businesses had multiple breaches per Ponemon Institute survey. the threat from their Own employees than the threat from outside hackers. Theft cases rack-up an average cost of £30,000 in legal costs, let alone the value of the lost data 20% of IT professionals said disgruntled employees their biggest concern in the insider threat. were Past Employee Data Theft Cases It cost Bank of America approximately $10 million when an employee leaked customer information to an identity theft ring. Bradley Manning 25, a US army private who revealed secret Us data to Wikileaks by pretending to listening to Lady Gaga music on a CD. He was actually burning hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the disk instead. 2014 IT Threat Predictions Lower level malware will be seen as big danger, as small businesses are offen not prepared and such atfacks go unreported. 2015 Data will not just be stolen, destruction of data could play its part 2014 in 2014 as well. 2013 A Cyber criminals in 2014 will find altacks and will focus on your weakest line of defense which is employees. for tried-and-true newer uses Net Orbit NETWORK MONITORING References: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/data-theft-cases-rocket-with-smaller-firms-hit-hard-by-ex-employees/ http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/disgruntled-employees-present-significant-data-breach-threat.html http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/article.php?id=D1275362 http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/03/lawyers-report-steep-rise-in-employee-data-theft-cases/ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217071/Insider_data_theft_costs_Bank_of_America_10_million http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/21/bradley-manning-sentenced-has-already-served-three-years-to-serve-32-more/ http://www.websense.com/content/websense-2014-security-predictions-report.aspx http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20130605_01 http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/roundup/businesses-are-losing-data-to-ex-employees-1090067