Insider threat exaggerated, says study

[Daniel ~]

Written by Daniel
Monday, 16 June 2008

Verizon report looked at 500 data breach incidents over the last four years and found 73 percent involved outsiders

By John E. Dunn, Techworld
June 16, 2008
InfoWorld

Insiders are not, after all, the main threat to networks, a detailed new analysis of real-world data breaches has concluded. Verizon's 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report,....

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[ccperf721p]

The biggest threat is not the small percentage of insiders doing 90% of the damage? What kind of math is that?
After many years of being in business, my math has become "creative" but not this creative.

[Daniel ~]

It just makes sense that those who are trusted are in position to do the most damage...and most likely to have a festering reason for doing so...

[Gizmo]

This finding, of course, should be considered in light of the fact that insiders are adept at keeping their activities secret.

In other words "Our data show that outsiders do most of the damage, but we aren't sure we can trust our data."