Insider Threat

With the recent launch of Absolute DDS 6, we unveiled a new feature that provides an unprecedented level of visibility into data on the endpoint. Absolute Endpoint Data Discovery (EDD), which comes as part of Absolute DDS, allows organizations to specify the at-risk or proprietary data that they want to identify so it can be tracked, on any endpoint, with the ability to take actions oon those endpoints if...

Right now, the average person owns 3.64 devices - smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables or consoles - with estimates that we’ll hit 4.3 devices per person by 2020. We’re already seeing a shift toward a mobile-first society. Although not all of these devices are work devices, the average employee in the US uses at least 3 devices per day for work activities. To date, organizations have struggled to manage such...

The 2016 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) reveals that over 429 million personal records were stolen or lost in 2015, but the number of organizations not reporting the full extent of data breaches is on the rise, up 85% over the previous year.

Mobile threats are on the rise. When mobile devices first started to hit mass adoption, there were a lot of fears over malware and exploits. At first, those threats failed to materialized, and both individuals and organizations alike became complacent about the risks to mobile devices. Today, mobile devices are one of the top threats to organizational data security.

Insiders are commonly held to be the weakest link in data security. It’s now recognized that people are the root cause of most data breaches (responsible for up to 90% of all breaches), either inadvertently or maliciously putting data at risk.