Malicious Insider Leaks are up by more than 50% in 2009
...according to the KPMG's Data Loss Barometer Report. Here are some interesting points:
- More people are being tempted to steal information such as that which could be passed along to competitors; this is partly because of economic pressures, and tempting offers from organized criminals
- Some examples are
- People in HR stealing employee information to open credit accounts
- Selling a customer database
- R&D
- Product plans
- Data loss in government is up 18% from 2008 and 30% from 2007
- There are 2,300 known data loss incidents that have impacted 700 million people (impacting these high number may be in part because of disclosure regulations)
- Of the various industries - financial services seem to have the best controls in place
- Screen out the criminals: Easier said than done - see my blog from yesterday on this.
