Insider threats could be the biggest risk your business faces this year

• Mimecast report finds insider threats now rival negligence as top concern
• Organizations report rising malicious and careless incidents
• Mimecast urges adaptive controls against insider risks

IT security leaders are now equally worried about malicious insiders as they are about negligent employees, new research has claimed.

Mimecast recently polled 2,500 IT security and IT decision makers in nine countries to learn about their biggest security fears, finding nearly half (42%) reported an increase in malicious insider threats year-on-year, up from 33% the year before.

At the same time, the same percentage (42%) of organizations also reported an increase in negligent incidents, and this parity marks a “fundamental shift in enterprise security, where intentional betrayal rivals accidents” as a primary security concern.