You May Be The Biggest Threat To Your Employer's Cybersecurity

When we consider the range of cyber-threats, we generally imagine external attackers -- foreign states, criminal underworlds or lone script kiddies. But the reality is that a large proportion of vulnerabilities and "threats" that organizations face today come from legitimate network users. The insider threat is still often woefully underestimated.

For all the sophistication of hackers today, insiders will always have an obvious advantage over a wannabe attacker -- they already have access. Certain privileges have to be given to employees for them to do their jobs. But that creates an inherent vulnerability in which insiders pose a constant and inescapable threat to Canadian businesses. Either through a genuine mistake or deliberate action, an employee can bring an entire company to its knees with the click of a button.