High value information—including trade secrets, product designs, merger and acquisition activity, financial data, confidential business information and the like—is often the prize for external malicious actors, but careless internal employees may unknowingly make the break-in much easier. The recent Ponemon study, “Risky Business: How Company Insiders Put High-Value Information at Risk,” found that 73 percent of the almost 700 IT security practitioners polled said their organization lost confidential information in the last year. Even more alarming, 59 percent admitted not being confident in their ability to prevent data leakage by an employee.
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