1. Insiders are Today’s Biggest Security Threat
 Attacks on institutional and corporate databases have become the new normal. And a generation of workers accustomed to information sharing has grown numb to its negative consequences.
However, the vast majority of those network openings were created innocently through accidental or inadvertent behavior by insiders without any intention of harming their employer
Well-intended admonitions to employees urging them to take security seriously by creating strong passwords, to study policy documents and to otherwise do the right things, are too often given lip service.

2. Detecting and Preventing the Insider Threat
There is no denying it: the insider threat poses a significant risk to organizations. Any accidental or malicious act by an employee can potentially lead to catastrophic incidents that threaten a company’s brand and reputation.
As mentioned, it is difficult to detect insider activity; however, there are some processes that organizations can develop or enhance to increase their chances of detecting malicious and accidental insider threat activity:
Enforce mandatory vacations and job rotations so employees remain fresh and alert, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious insider activity is detected

3. Insider Threat: Four Things to Pay Attention to in 2016
a recent report by Baker & Hostetler LLP suggesting that around 36% of problems occur due to employee negligence or human error, and another 16% happening through insider theft. Only 22% actually occurs from outside theft
One of the biggest causes of a data breach is authorized users accessing unauthorized information they are prohibited from seeing.
It’s important to take steps to protect your business from breaches, but if you only focus on outside threats, you are ignoring half the problem.

4. The 3 Faces of Insider Threats
The repercussions of any data breach is costly. Juniper Research predicts that data-breach losses will reach $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, with an average cost per incident to exceed $150 million by 2020. 
Negligent Employees – Employees that may accidentally delete or modify critical information or unwittingly share sensitive information.
Exploited Employees – Employees are exploited when an external adversary finds their way into the network with compromised user credentials.
Malicious Insiders – These are employees with the willful intent to deliberately steal critical company information typically for selling or profiting from the information.