34% of data breaches are inside jobs

34% of data breaches are inside jobs

  • Who has the most access to a company’s secure and sensitive data?
  • In most cases, it’s not a teenage computer hacker from Russia but an employee on the payroll.
  • In 2019, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report found that more than one-third of all data breaches that occurred that year (34 percent) were the result of “insider threat actors.”

    BetaNews – Michael Klazema | January 14, 2020