Cybersecurity

The Enemy Within: Most Cybercrimes By Employees

In an era where most organizations run on electronic communications, it is not only executives and IT engineers who hold the keys to the IT kingdom. Any member of staff with Internet access at work is a potential breach. Many chief executives pride themselves on being a good judge of character, but few outside small start-up organizations would claim to be able to vet their entire staff with a sideways glance. In many organizations, this leaves thousands of members of staff at all levels appearing to be potential security leaks.

If up until you thought that most cyber attacks were by external persons, you might be surprised to hear that statistically, most of these attacks had something to do with the internal staff. A research on the subject shows that inside threats are the cause for 80% of cyber crimes – a figure that is gradually increasing.