4 Out of 6 Threats Come from Internal Users

In its 2020 Cyber Threats Report, Netwrix also pointed to the troubling trend toward insider cybersecurity threats. In fact, the vendor found those the number of those breaches will outpace those of their external counterparts. Ever since organizations went remote in response to COVID-19, four of the top six types of cybersecurity incidents continue to come from staff. The reasons vary: accidental mistakes by admins (suffered by 27% of respondents), accidental improper sharing of data by employees (26%), misconfiguration of cloud services (16%) and data theft by employees (14%). Almost 80% of CIOs see users as more likely to ignore IT policies in the coming year and pose greater security risks than ever before.

“MSSPs need to offer dedicated work-from-home and back-to-office services that will target data security protection against insider threat, and help organizations to assess their current security posture to identify security gaps,” Ken Tripp, Netwrix channel chief, says.