A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute revealed that the average global cost of insider threats rose by 31% in two years to $11.45 million, and the frequency of incidents spiked by 47% during the same time period. The remote workforce is creating new opportunities for threat actors to launch insider threats.
The 2020 Securonix Insider Threat Report highlights real-life incidents from our trenches across a number of dimensions such as motive and type of risks against industry verticals.
Insider threat continues to be a problem for organizations, regardless of size or industry. Companies are trying to mitigate this risk by continuously investing in tools, people, and processes. The Securonix Threat Research Team has analyzed hundreds of incidents across several industry verticals in order to understand the various behavior patterns that impose risk to organizations. In this report we take a closer look at such behaviors by examining real life incidents across number of dimensions such as motive and type of risks against industry verticals. The objective of this report is to expose the various types of behaviors that have been observed in the field and the detection techniques that have worked to detect such behaviors. We believe insider threat programs can benefit from such insights in order to make improvements or instill new initiatives that can benefit the organization as a whole.
