Which departments/groups within your organization present the biggest risk for insider threats?
Finance21%
Customer success38%
R&D15%
BoD/executive management teams11%
Sales5%
HR3%
General administration4%
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Finance21%
Customer success38%
R&D15%
BoD/executive management teams11%
Sales5%
HR3%
General administration4%
Proactively updating technology30%
Integrating security technology41%
Accelerating incident response17%
Improving the accuracy of threat detection8%
Ensuring prompt disaster recovery2%
Other; comment below
Phishing attacks28%
Spear phishing40%
Poor passwords24%
Orphaned accounts3%
Browsing suspicious sites3%
No selling.
No recruiting.
No self promotion.
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Interesting poll but the biggest risk is actually not listed on here. It would be your IT organization because they manage/own privilege accounts all over the place that can access data for whole organization. Compromise an admins account and you can have keys to the whole kingdom.