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Despite the growing risk, data security events caused by insiders are not being taken seriously. New research in the Code42 Data Exposure Report notes that more than half (54%) of IT security leaders spend less than 20% of their budget on insider risk, and 66% of IT security leaders say their budget for insider risk is insufficient. This is a major problem for organizations around the world as users, applications, and data continue to move outside the hardened data center and corporate perimeter as part of digital transformation policies. And, unfortunately, it s going to get worse before it gets better. In their most recent predictions, Forrester says that insider incidents will be the cause of 33% of data breaches in 2021, up from 25% in 2020.
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Employees are 85% more likely today to leak files than they were pre-COVID
59% of IT security leaders say insider threat will increase or significantly increase in the next two years
More than half of organizations don t have an insider risk response plan
40% of organizations don t assess how effectively their technologies mitigate insider threats Code42, the insider risk detection and response leader, today released its latest Data Exposure Report on Insider Risk. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute, found that both business and security leaders are allowing massive Insider Risk problems to fester in the aftermath of the significant shift to remote work in the past year. During that same time, three-quarters (76%) of IT security leaders said that their organizations have experienced one or more data breaches involving the loss of sensitive files and 59% said insider threat will increase in the next two years primarily due to users having access to files they shou