Insider threats & data breaches

Helping understand the difference between malicious and accidental insider threat

What does 'insider threat' mean?

There is a saying among security professionals that 'every breach starts with an insider'.

Rethinking insider threats: Where traditional DLP won’t stop a leak

Besides accidental data disclosure, this particular scenario is a classic case of insider risk in action: privileged users accessing sensitive internal data and leaking it to personal email addresses or file sharing sites.

Tackling the insider threat

Data breaches accidentally caused by people inside organisations are becoming much more common. But attention is elsewhere.

Introducing switch threat protection

An employee sends an email containing sensitive data to the wrong person and the organisation panics as they try to avoid a serious data breach.

Egress launches industry’s first Insider Breach Calculator for email, to help business quantify risk

Aimed at helping businesses better determine the probability of suffering an email-based insider data breach.

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Infographic: The insider threat

In this digital world, data security often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. Data breaches can affect the reputation of a company.

Insider threats in cyber security

Discover Egress's article on insider threats are cyber security; From malicious internal sabotage to accidental email sending or disabling security control.