How costly is an insider threat?

Proofpoint released a report to identify the costs and trends associated with negligent, compromised, and malicious insiders. Notably, on average, impacted organizations spent $15.4 million annually on overall insider threat remediation and took 85 days to contain each incident.

Key Takeaways

• Organizations impacted by insider threats spent an average of $15.4 million annually

• The overall number of incidents has increased by a staggering 44 percent in just two years

• The negligent insider is the root cause of most incidents

• Malicious or criminal insiders were behind 26% of incidents at an average cost per incident of $648,062

• Credential theft incidents have almost doubled since the last study

• The time to contain an insider incident increased from the last study

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