Security pros should reevaluate their use of technology and policies to bolster defenses against insider threats, a new study shows. The threat of employees causing a data breach due to ignorance or malicious intent was behind viruses, data loss and hacking as the top security risks. Only 21 percent of the respondents listed insider threats in the top three, demonstrating a lack of awareness of the seriousness of the risk. The study recommends attacking a number of problems inside an organization that could reduce the security threat posed by employees.”]

