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Experts: Employees Commit Most Data Breaches

November 22, 2016

Via: SHRM

HR managers and employers must confront a hard truth: It’s not if, but when, their businesses will experience a data breach, experts say.

Most of those breaches won’t be committed by nefarious, unknown forces. The damage will instead come from employees.

IBM’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index found that 60 percent of all breaches are carried out by insiders, including current and former employees who—intentionally or unintentionally–take classified or proprietary information with them when they depart.

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