How do you classify data in your organization? Conducting a data risk assessment and keeping compliance regulations top of mind are some of the first steps to helping an organization protect its data.

A recent report said that almost half of data breaches involve an insider element. In this blog we define what constitutes an insider threat and give you nearly 50 examples to help illustrate the threat further.

The tool, which is intended for both public and private sector organizations, can help companies better assess their vulnerability to insider threats.

It seems as if the goal of the breach was to set up copycat merchant pages to divert sales from the originals.

A new lawsuit alleges four attorneys plotted their exit months before they left for a competing firm, then copied and destroyed corporate data.

Forrester, citing the persistence of remote work, predicts that internal incidents will be responsible for 33% of breaches in 2021.

Before resigning, the employee stole company data and created a "superuser" account that let him access the network after he left.

A breach at the popular e-commerce site was linked back to two "rogue" support team employees.

To gain some insight into the most common pitfalls companies face when it comes to discovering and properly classifying data, we reached out to a panel of data scientists and security leaders.

This company protected its sensitive data with biometric thumbprint scanner but still managed to suffer trade secret theft after a former director of research allegedly stole gigabytes of data on its recipes.

Data classification, discovery, and encryption: We reached out to 18 security experts for insight on implementing a data-centric audit and protection program in an organization.

Verizon's new Insider Threat Report breaks down five categories of inside threat actors and outlines 11 steps to reduce risk and defend against malicious insiders.

Federal agents apprehended a former Apple employee last week suspected of stealing intellectual property, including engineering schematics on the company's secret self-driving car technology.

Tesla filed a lawsuit against a former employee this week after it learned he made changes to company source code and exported gigabytes of proprietary data to unknown third parties.

Learn about what an insider threat analyst does, along with how they affect existing procedures, policies, and protection layers in organizations in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Whether malicious or negligent, insider threats pose serious security problems for organizations. Forrester Senior Security Analyst Joseph Blankenship offers some insight into common early indicators of an insider threat.

Global cybercrime costs could reach $2 trillion by 2019. That’s up 3X from 2015, which was only a paltry $500 billion by comparison. Surprisingly, though, hackers should be the least of your worries.

From heightened visibility into your data to helping you meet compliance regulations, linking Data Discovery and Data Classification together produces many security benefits for your organization.

Our Definitive Guide to Data Classification series concludes with guidance on how to set yourself up to succeed and keep your sensitive data safe.

Part 4 in our Definitive Guide to Data Classification series offers tips for getting organizational support for your data classification program.