Research Findings Show Insider Attacks Up- Need For Access Governance
Posted on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 @ 11:21 AM
The Verizon Business 2010 research report provides yet another data point on the importance of managing insider access risks.
"Misuse of access sits atop the list of threat actions that led to breaches in 2009."
Interesting to note that the volume of breaches shifted dramatically between Verizon's 2009 report and the 2010 report. While external threats were still the highest percentage of cause (70%), the percentage of breaches that involved insiders increased 26% over the previous year (48%).
2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
Many organizations are now waking up to the reality that insider access risks can rapidly materialize into compliance violations, operational loss and brand erosion that can seriously impact the business.
And don't think the insider access risk issue is limited to just privileged users. As our own research has shown, people have more access to information resources than is required for their job role. Implementing the right access change control framework and regular monitoring of access will greatly reduce the inherent access risk level for an organization.