NIST SP 800-137

From: Business Solutions

By Christine Kern, contributing writer

According to a new study from MeriTalk, 45 percent of all federal agencies were targeted by insider threats, with 29 percent losing data to an insider incident over the past year. The report, Inside Job: The Federal Insider Threat Report, underwritten by Symantec, also found that although 76 percent of federal agencies are increasing attention on combating insider threats compared to a year ago, nearly half still suffered from an insider attack.

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The problem is not just what employees are doing. It also is reflected in what agencies do not know. For example, 45 percent cannot tell when a document has been inappropriately shared; 42 percent cannot tell how a document was shared; and 34 percent cannot detect what data has been lost.

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