Employees are now more dangerous to their company than external hackers


New data from Orange Cyberdefense has suggested the biggest risks companies face could now be coming from inside, with internal threats rising from 47% to 57% in the space of less than a year.

For the first time ever, internal threats have become more common that external ones, with hacking remaining pretty steady at 31% of attacks compared with employee misuse, which rose from 29% to 45%. However, while it’s the employees who could be driving a higher risk internally, companies could be doing more to protect themselves in far more than just the basic cybersecurity sense.

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Source: TechRadar News


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