Our goal is that this report serves as a crucial resource in enhancing your strategies and defenses in the battle to protect your organization’s assets and integrity against insider risks. This survey, capturing responses from 467 cybersecurity professionals across diverse sectors, seeks to uncover the nature of insider threat challenges faced by organizations, focusing on understanding the factors driving these threats, their detection and mitigation complexities, and the effectiveness of insider threat programs.

For this report, Securonix partnered with the Cyentia Institute to analyze a dataset of more than 54 billion events fed into more than 154k policies generating an average of more than 750k violations per hour. The goal? To quantify our assumptions and findings in a way that can help organizations calibrate what’s going on in their own environments.

The 2022 Securonix Threat Report highlights the trends, required data, and detection summaries for key trends. Additionally, our report covers the techniques we’ve seen from the trenches across insider threat, cloud infrastructure misuse/abuse, and preemptive ransomware detection. Finally, we added a new section in this report covering loT/OT.

Insider threat continues to be a problem for organizations, regardless of size or industry. Companies are trying to mitigate this risk by continuously investing in tools, people, and processes. The Securonix Threat Research Team has analyzed hundreds of incidents across several industry verticals in order to understand the various behavior patterns that impose risk to organizations. In this report we take a closer look at such behaviors by examining reallife incidents across number of dimensions such as motive and type of risks against industry verticals.