70% of Organizations Experienced Internal Data Breaches in the Last Five Years
Internal data breaches are on the rise, with 70% of security professionals reporting that it’s happened to them in the last five years.
Among the other findings in the report, fewer than than 40% (39.6%) of organizations train best cybersecurity practices and data hygiene to employees, and 26% of respondents did not use encryption when transmitting data externally.
While e-mail applications are a leading cause of accidental breaches, file sharing services, collaboration tools, and SMS apps represent significant risks.
Respondents did indicate a new urgency with regard to compliance with privacy- and security-centric regulations such aspol the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and California’s pending California Consumer Privacy Act.
