Departing employees and the risk to corporate data [Q&A]

New research into insider threats from security automation platform Securonix shows that 60 percent of data exfiltration incidents are carried out by employees identified as 'flight risk', in other words that are about to leave the business. We spoke to Shareth Ben, director of insider threat and cyber threat analytics with Securonix, to find out more about insider threats, flight risks and how companies can protect themselves. BN: What type of organizations are most at risk from insider threats and what type of information are insiders typically looking to obtain? SB: Organizations that experience the highest number of insider data exfiltration… [Continue Reading]