Insider risk is any user-driven data exposure event, either malicious, negligent, or accidental in nature. As insider risk grows, the standards for security teams today are edging on impossible: You’re expected to have comprehensive visibility and context around risk in your environment. You’re asked to act with lightning speed and 100% conviction — but also show careful sensitivity to employee privacy. And of course, you can’t slow down productivity or impede collaboration. Your strategies and actions need to fit with corporate cultures that prioritize openness and collaboration.
Security Teams Don’t Have the Tools They Need to Manage Insider Risk
Here’s the thing: When we talk to peers in the field, they tell us these expectations aren’t the problem; it’s the tools. Most organizations are still using conventional data security tools like data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB), and user entity behavior analytics (UEBA) — complex tools that focus on blocking and rely on painstaking data classification and policy management. And this approach just isn’t keeping up. A whopping 74% of companies that have experienced a data breach caused by…
