Insiders pose biggest IT threat
Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced the results of an IT Director survey that uncovers a rising concern of insider threats and widespread acknowledgement of being unprepared for emerging Web-based attacks
When asked whether they believed insider or outsider threats posed a bigger problem to their organisation, more than 80 percent of the 103 Directors surveyed prioritise insider threats (defined as either unintentional data leakage or deliberate data theft). Less than one in five respondents (17 percent) feel the external threats posed by hackers are more dangerous.
This could be in part due to the fact that 37 percent of respondents have experienced leakage of sensitive information in the past year. In line with this, internal security is at the top of IT Directors' shopping lists when respondents were asked to rank potential future investments that included perimeter security, staff mobility and network performance.
