Fear: Not Educating Customers About Insider Risk

Faraz Siraj, vice president of channel sales at Code42 (Code42 addresses insider risks and threats from a positive-intent perspective):

Not prioritizing insider risk is an obvious fear of mine. While it’s a larger problem than ever, unfortunately, we’ve seen that many organizations still only allocate about 10% of their security budget toward insider risk. I fear some of the channel may run away from this opportunity if the budget doesn’t appear to be there. It’s up to us to shift this status quo by better educating the channel on the realities of insider risk. As our Data Exposure Report showed, 59% of IT leaders say insider threat will increase or significantly increase in the next two years, but more than half (54%) still don’t have an insider response plan. The threats are there but most security leaders don’t realize there’s an alternative to DLP to protect from this threat. That is why education is critical.