Why Insider Threats Are Hurting North American Businesses

A new report from Kaspersky Lab revealed that company employees are among the leading cyberthreats to North American companies.

According to the “Business Perception of IT Security: In the Face of an Inevitable Compromise” report, 20 percent of businesses worldwide experienced four or more data breaches in the last 12 months, while North American businesses suffered double the global amount at 44 percent.

Enterprises in North America said careless/uninformed employee actions (59 percent) and phishing/social engineering (56 percent) were the largest drivers of the serious data breaches they experienced.

“The survey results indicate the need for a different view on the growing complexity of cyberthreats,” Veniamin Levtsov, vice president of enterprise business at Kaspersky Lab, said in a press release. For the full article click here 

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