Security News > 2021 > June > Insider Versus Outsider: Navigating Top Data Loss Threats

What's shocking is that despite the many advantages cloud and software-as-a-service applications provide organizations, they frequently fall short when it comes to averting data loss.

Whether from human error, malicious actors, outages, or other methods, data loss poses a very real risk to the resilience of a business.

To better protect themselves from data loss, companies first need to understand the top threats.

Once they do this, they will launch attacks from the trusted accounts of individuals one might communicate with regularly, and often in an existing thread. All a cybercriminal has to do is deceive one employee into providing email credentials or opening one attachment, and the entire organization is abruptly exposed to data loss.

Often, this data loss occurs through email, such as mentioning restricted information in outside correspondence or attaching documents that may violate customer or patient privacy.

Companies must familiarize themselves with the most common forms of data loss to prevent customer information, intellectual property and other sensitive data from being inaccessible.

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https://threatpost.com/insider-outsider-data-loss-threats/167063/