20% of all cybersecurity incidents in 2018 were caused by employees misusing privileges. Second to intentional insider fraud were employee ‘miscellaneous errors’ and web application attacks.
To protect themselves and their customers against insider attacks, organizations must put fraud prevention measures in place and regularly evaluate performance.
Education and training can go a long way to combat accidental data compromise but it’s harder to identify intentional insider fraud by employees who have access to critical information and exploit that access. For this type of fraud, a user behavior monitoring solution is invaluable.
Find out how a cloud-based insider fraud monitoring platform can help you protect your organization from this very real threat.