74% of security professionals say their organizations are vulnerable to insider threats. The biggest concern appears to be accidental data breaches resulting from careless data handling by insiders. Nearly 60% of the respondents point to inadequate data protection strategies as contributing to an increase in insider threats, according to the Haystax survey. Privileged IT users such as those with access to administrative accounts top the list of people organizations are most concerned about from an insider threat perspective. The survey of 508 security professionals was conducted by LinkedIns Information Security Community and Crowd Research Partners.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/insider-threat-fear-greater-than-ever-survey-shows