Every month we get at least one press release citing the latest security survey as evidence that the insider threat is greater than the outsider threat. This is a cue for you, dear CSO, to spend less on your perimeter and more on whatever “insider threat prevention” tool the press release is trumpeting. Any security plan worth its salt needs controls to defend against both insider threats and outsider threats. There’s a whole class of relatively new software products that aim to help prevent employees misappropriating confidential data or proprietary plans.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2121564/inside-out.html