Every company – big or small – wants to avoid a data breach. Most efforts are placed on protecting the environment from external threat actors and cyber-criminal organizations attempting to get in.
But, according to Shred-It’s 2018 State of the Industry report, A material focus should be placed on internal employees. Those with access to critical, sensitive, protected, or otherwise valuable data pose a real threat. According to the report, of those enterprise organizations experiencing a data breach in the last year, CSOs found that 47% of the breaches were due to employee negligence, and 22% to deliberate employee theft or sabotage.
But it’s not just enterprises that should be concerned. According to Shred-It, an equally material 71% of small business owners who experienced data were attributed them to employees (42% negligence, 29% deliberate theft or sabotage).
