Threats From Within

It’s very easy to look at security as just protecting yourself from attacks from outside your own organization. The below article shows there are a lot of things we must think about with our internal staff and contractors. These threats can be either malicious or accidental. One very interesting statistic from SolarWinds shows 62% of businesses found insider mistakes were the leading cause of security incidents. Whether malicious or not, the result can be devastating to an organisation. The article focuses on two commonly overlooked security issues – employees who leave your organisation, and imposters who try to get passwords reset. Continue reading at the link below to see how these can happen and, more importantly, what can be done to help prevent these breaches.

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