Employees’s Unintended Cyber-Breach Is An Underrated Threat

The threat of the rogue employee or the vengeful former-employee is a frequent subject of cybersecurity alerts, and it’s a real issue. But companies are more likely to confront another kind of insider threat: the clueless or careless employee who either inadvertently leaks confidential information or does something that lays the groundwork for a breach in the future. Third party contractors may constitute a similar kind of “without-malice” cyber threat, says this post, as it lays out the most common ways these breaches occur and what companies can do to prevent them.