Bitglass, the Next-Gen CASB company, has just released Threatbusters, its 2019 Insider Threat Report.
In partnership with a leading cybersecurity community, Bitglass
surveyed IT professionals about insider threats, as well as what their
organizations are doing to defend against them.
According
to the report's findings, 73 percent of respondents believe that
insider attacks have become more frequent in the past year.
Additionally, 59 percent said that their organizations experienced at
least one insider attack over the last 12 months. As corporate data
moves to more devices and cloud applications, failing to implement the
appropriate security controls will only serve to further enable these
threats.
"Insider
attacks are harder to identify and remediate than those that originate
from outside the enterprise," said Rich Campagna, CMO of Bitglass. "This
is caused by a number of factors highlighted throughout the report,
including insufficient authentication, inadequate user behavior
monitoring in the cloud, and a failure to properly secure personal
devices. If organizations want to prevent insider attacks, they have to
address these security gaps."
Key Findings:
- 41 percent of respondents said that their organizations do not monitor for abnormal user behavior across their cloud footprints
- Only
12 percent of enterprises are consistently able to detect insider
threats stemming from personal mobile devices, including those that are
off premises or lack agents
- 56 percent of respondents believe it is more challenging to detect insider threats after migrating to the cloud
- 68 percent of organizations feel moderately to extremely vulnerable to insider threats
- Only
50 percent of organizations provide user trainings about insider
threats, and a mere 31 percent implement secondary authentication to
defend against them
- 56
percent of respondents claimed that their organizations can detect
insider threats within the day that they occur; 50 percent said that
they can recover from an insider attack within the same time period
To learn more about the state of insider threats and how enterprises are defending against them, download the full report here: https://pages.bitglass.com/FY19Q2ThreatbustersBitglass2019InsiderThreatReport_LP.html