Amid today’s data-dependent, distributed workforce, and sprawling cloud collaboration technology use, it’s no surprise that insider risk is growing and catching the attention of security teams.
Insider risk — when sensitive corporate data moves to untrusted places like personal devices, email or cloud destinations — is one of the fastest growing threats that businesses have to address today, but it’s also one of the hardest to mitigate. Today, data is highly portable, and users are often off the network, greatly decreasing security teams’ visibility to file movements. Compounding this challenge are modern file-sharing technologies that make it even easier to expose, leak or steal company assets like customer lists, product plans and sensitive intellectual property (IP).