An insider data breach can cost as much as 20% of annual revenue, Aberdeen study says. Both accidental and malicious insider risk can cost businesses material portions of revenue on an ongoing annual basis. Technology that enable the free flow of data in an organization are also the ones that make it easy for insiders to exfiltrate data. In 2020, a data breach was 4.5 times more likely to happen on end-user endpoints than back-end servers, emphasizing the importance of endpoint security for borderless workforces.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/13/insider-data-breach/