The analytics black hole for detecting internal security threats

Forrester Research conducted a data security and privacy survey of North American and European companies in 2013 that revealed that enterprise "insiders" were the leading source of security breaches, with 36% of breaches stemming from inadvertent misuse of data by employees.

The same survey showed that only 42% of the North American and European workforce in small to midsized companies had received training on how to remain secure at work, with only 57% reporting that they were even aware of corporate security policies. "People don't know what they don't know," said Heidi Shey, a Forrester analyst and the author of the report, is quoted as saying in a CSO Online post. "You've got to give them some kind of guidance and guard rails to work with."