Educate Customers About Insider Threats

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

“There was mass adoption of remote work in 2020, and as a result, digital transformation greatly accelerated. The collaboration culture was ushered in and now nearly all work involves file sharing and movement in some way. While it can be incredibly effective from a productivity perspective to collaborate and work on files together, it also introduces new threats to data – IP, trade secrets, product designs, customer lists, personnel information and the like.

Code42’s recent Data Exposure Report found that 61% of IT security leaders said their remote workforce was the cause of a data breach since COVID-19 started, and employees are 85% more likely today to leak files than they were pre-COVID. It’s up to the channel to help their customers protect against the growing insider risk threat. The channel must educate their customers that insider risk management solutions need to be a core component of security tech stacks.”