Among companies experiencing data breaches (and that is to say, a majority), internal actors were responsible for 43% of data loss, half of which was intentional, and half accidental. That’s a staggering amount of risk lingering inside organizations, especially when one considers that the report, from Intel, also revealed that security professionals have experienced an average of six significant security breaches each. Interestingly, insider threats aren’t recognized as the gaping issue that they are. Breaches perpetrated by disgruntled employees and other forms of inside jobs come in at sixth place for most of the world in terms of security concerns, except in Asia-Pacific, where it’s No. 2. Cloud deployments, in contrast, brought with them increased anxiety of more security breaches, although there was no indication of increased risk with cloud applications. Intel also found that 68% of data breach incidents, the data exfiltrated from the network was serious enough to require public disclosure or have a negative financial impact on the company, 70% of incidents in smaller commercial organizations and 61% in enterprises. The average number of breaches was highest in Asia-Pacific organizations and lowest in UK and US enterprises. More than 10% of Asia-Pacific companies reported over 20 breaches, compared to just above 1% of North American and 4% of UK enterprises reporting more than 20 breaches.
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