'Flight risk' employees involved in 60% of insider cybersecurity incidents

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/flight-risk-employees-involved-in-60-of-insider-cybersecurity-incidents/

By Charlie Osborne
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
May 20, 2020

Employees planning to leave their jobs are involved in 60% of insider 
cybersecurity incidents and data leaks, new research suggests.

According to the Securonix 2020 Insider Threat Report, published on Wednesday, 
"flight risk" employees, generally deemed to be individuals on the verge of 
resigning or otherwise leaving a job, often change their behavioral patterns 
from two months to two weeks before conducting an insider attack.

Insider incidents are caused by individuals within an organization rather than 
external threat actors. Employees or contractors with privileged access to 
systems may cause damage, steal or sell data, or be the cause of a security 
failure -- such as by uploading or moving confidential resources to third-party 
services without permission.

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