What to Look for in an Insider Risk Management Platform
Summary: The article cites an annual cost of insider incidents at $19.5 million per organization and says the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found a majority of employees pasting company data into AI chat tools through personal logins IT cannot see. It reports shadow AI is now the third most common non-malicious insider action in Verizon's DLP dataset, a fourfold increase, with source code the most common data type submitted to external GenAI models and more than 15% of users at the average company running unauthorized AI browser extensions.
Why it matters: The article's author is Field CISO at Teramind, a vendor in this category, so the eight-point framework doubles as a sales argument. The concrete stake it names is the gap between a risky action and the person who can stop it, which it says is where most of the real cost of these incidents comes from.
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