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Insider Risk

We've curated 96 cybersecurity statistics about Insider risk to help you understand how employee behaviors and unintentional mistakes are becoming critical threats in 2025. Explore how organizations are adapting their practices to mitigate these risks effectively.

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72% of organizations lack visibility into how users interact with sensitive data across endpoints, cloud apps, and GenAI platforms.

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Insider riskVisibility

61% of security leaders are very concerned about credential compromise being used for insider activity over the next 12 months.

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Insider riskCredential compromise

51% of organizations report operating at Maturity Level 2 (Implemented: tools are in place but fragmented across teams with limited integration).

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Insider riskMaturity

46% say a lack of skilled staff is the biggest barrier to maturing their insider risk program.

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Insider riskMaturity

42% say organizational silos (e.g., Security vs HR vs Legal) is the biggest barrier to maturing their insider risk program.

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Insider riskMaturity

31% say maintenance burden is the biggest barrier to maturing their insider risk program.

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Insider riskMaturity

23% say user pushback or fear of harming culture is the biggest barrier to maturing their insider risk program.

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Insider riskMaturity

47% of organizations utilize legacy Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools to monitor insider activity.

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Insider riskDLP

Only 47% of security professionals strongly agree that their existing DLP tools are effective in protecting sensitive data from leaving the organization.

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Insider riskDLP

52% of security leaders cite Shadow AI/SaaS application control as a priority for next-generation solutions.

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Insider riskDLP

29% of organizations detected between 1 and 5 insider incidents in the past 18 months.

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41% of organizations reported financial losses between $1 million and $10 million for their most significant insider incident.

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Insider riskInsider incident consequences

67% of organizations reported a financial impact between $100,000 and $10 million for their most significant incident.

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Insider riskInsider incident consequences

9% of organizations reported losses above $10 million due to their most significant insider incident.

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Insider riskInsider incident consequences

13% of insider incidents involved credit cardholder data.

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Insider riskData loss

45% of organizations reported revenue or financial loss as the primary consequence of their most significant insider incident.

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Insider riskInsider incident consequences

43% of security professionals are concerned about third-party partners or contractors with access to their environment.

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Insider riskThird-party partners

43% of organizations reported reputational damage as the primary consequence of their most significant insider incident.

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Insider riskInsider incident consequences

21% of security professionals are concerned about whistleblowers sharing or exposing data.

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Insider riskData exposure

When asked which egress channels for the outflow of sensitive data does your organization worry most about, 69% said email.

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Insider riskEgress channel