Cybersecurity Insiders’ research on insider threats reveals latest trends, organizational challenges, and methodologies on how IT professionals prepare for and deal with this danger. The report also states reasons why organizations are increasingly having difficulty detecting and preventing insider threats, which include the increased use of applications and/or tools that leak data, an increased amount of data that leaves the business environment/perimeter, and the misuse of credential or access privileges. Fraud is the most common insider threat incident recorded in the federal government, finance and insurance (87.8 percent), state and local governments (77 percent), healthcare (76 percent), and the entertainment (61.5 percent) industries.”]