Security News > 2020 > March > Legal industry at great risk from insider data breaches

77% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 78% think employees have put data at risk intentionally.

"Egress CEO Tony Pepper believes the findings show how IT leaders are resigned to the inevitability of insider breaches and don't have adequate risk management processes and technology in place."Given the sensitivity of the information they handle, the legal industry is one of the most at-risk sectors from both accidental and intentional insider data breaches.

"The severe penalties for data breaches mean IT leaders must action better risk management strategies, using advanced tools to prevent insider incidents. They also need better visibility of risk vectors; relying on employees to report incidents is not an acceptable data protection strategy."

Of the 57% who said they or a colleague had intentionally shared data against company policy in the past year, 58% said they did so when they took data with them to a new job, while 21% said they had taken a risk when sharing data because they weren't provided with the right security tools.

56% of the legal industry employees surveyed don't believe that data belongs exclusively to the organization and only 11% recognize that everyone has responsibility for keeping data safe.

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