Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of The Insider
Summary: Gartner fraud analyst Avivah Litan says she now gets multiple calls a week, up from about one a month a year earlier, from manufacturers, banks, pharmaceutical firms and retailers worried about employees selling company data or network access on darknet markets. A September 2015 Intel report found internal actors were responsible for 43 percent of data loss, and Verizon's 2016 DBIR found insider breaches usually take months or years to discover.
Bottom line: Verizon's data put only 14 percent of insiders in leadership or elevated-access roles, with nearly a third being end users who had sensitive data simply to do their jobs - so the exposure sits with the rank and file, and the breaches run undetected for months or years.
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