Biggest security threat to an organization still remains the same !

Despite an increase in spending and investment in deterrence tactics and detection tools, insider threats continue to cause harm to all types of organizations.

Using crowd-based research in partnership with the 300,000-plus members of the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, the report found nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of organizations feel vulnerable to insider threats, a significant seven-percent increase over last year.

Most survey respondents (67 percent) indicate that because insiders already have credentialed access to their networks and services, they are much more difficult to detect and deter than external threats. But only 42 percent of organizations say they are regularly monitoring user behavior while 21 percent do none at all.