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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS
Findings of the 2021 Insider Threat Report
As organizations adapt to the new normal, it is • Most organizations consider themselves only
important to reflect on what drives the increasing somewhat effective or worse (63%) when it comes
risk of insider threats and how the situation is to monitoring, detecting, and responding to insider
worsened with more employees working from threats. Only 37% of organizations consider them-
home than ever before, using new applications selves very to extremely effective when it comes to
and tools, and relying on cloud apps. monitoring, detecting, and responding to insider
threats.
Based on the results of a comprehensive online survey
of hundreds of cybersecurity professionals, conducted • When comparing internal attacks to external cyber-
in January 2021, to gain deep insight into the latest security attacks, 50% of respondents confirm that
trends, key challenges, and solutions for insider threat internal attacks are more difficult to detect and pre-
management, the 2021 Insider Threat Report revealed vent than external cyber-attacks. Since insiders
the following key findings: have approved access privileges, it can be chal-
lenging to distinguish legitimate use cases from
• Compared to last year, 68% of organizations ob- malicious attacks.
served that insider attacks had become more fre-
quent over the last 12 months and 57% indicated • Another factor that is making detection of insider
an increase in attack frequency. In fact, 59% have attacks more difficult is the shift toward cloud com-
experienced one or more insider attacks within the puting, as confirmed by 53% of cybersecurity pro-
last 12 months. fessionals.
• An overwhelming 66% of organizations feel moder- • Visibility and control are paramount in preventing
ately to extremely vulnerable. Only 2% say they an insider threat. Almost all organizations (85%)
are not at all vulnerable to an insider attack. consider unified visibility and control across all
apps, devices, web destinations, on-premises re-
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