Federal Agencies Increasing Their Focus on Insider Threats
Eighty-five percent of federal IT managers say their agency is more focused on combating insider threats today than one year ago, and most are formalizing their efforts through formal insider threat programs, according to MeriTalk’s 2017 Federal Insider Threat Report, underwritten by Symantec.
However, the rate of insider-perpetrated cyber incidents has not changed much since the report was last released in 2015. In 2017, 42 percent of agencies say they have been targeted by such incidents compared to 45 percent in 2015. Twenty-three percent of respondents say their agency had lost data to an insider-perpetrated cyber incident in the past 12 months.