From: Security Magazine
Eighty-five percent of federal IT managers say their agency is more focused on combating insider threats today than one year ago, and most are formalizing their efforts through formal insider threat programs, according to MeriTalk’s 2017 Federal Insider Threat Report, underwritten by Symantec.
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The report notes that agencies that have lost data to insider incidents are less likely to have basic security measures – incident response systems, continuous monitoring, data loss prevention – in place, and less than half of agencies have increased encryption adoption, enabled real-time activity monitoring or enforced separation of duties policies following increasing use of cloud-based systems. Fifty-nine percent of federal IT managers surveyed say that the increasing number of cloud-based systems has made insider threats more difficult to detect.
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