There s never been a shortage of risk that organizations face from insiders gone bad. Insider risk used to consist of things like a ream of paper walking out the door. Today, as a result of the exponential amount of data digitization and portability over the past few decades, the risk of data theft has grown considerably. Organizations need to pay much closer attention to their data, especially where it resides, who can access it and where it moves. The density of value in the data is disproportionately high, relative to its size.
Source: https://threatpost.com/insider-threats-are-rising-but-they-shouldnt-be/148189/