According to the latest SANs survey, 40% of responding organizations felt that insider threats were the most damaging threats facing their companies and almost half were formulating an incident response plan to address this specific threat. The threat insider report can be found here. Edgard Capdevielle, CEO at Nozomi Networks commented below.
Edgard Capdevielle, CEO at Nozomi Networks:
“No-one wants to believe that an employee would act maliciously but trust isn’t a strong enough security defense. Mistakes can happen too and when it comes to ICS and critical infrastructure, security measures must not be built on blind faith.Technological advances now enable real-time monitoring and early detection of potential attacks to industrial operations, offering new weapons to combat escalating cyberthreats – regardless of who is behind them, or whether they’re motivated by malice or mistake.”
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