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Internal Violators Are The Most Serious Threat to Data Privacy in Southeast Asia

Top-level executives, IT administrators and other authorized personnel cause 56% of incidents, cites InfoWatch Kuala Lumpur, October 12, 2017 — Data leakages in ASEAN countries are mainly caused by the negligence of top-level executives and employees with access to sensitive and confidential data, according to the latest research findings by cybersecurity and data leak prevention expert InfoWatch Group. Up to 56% of incidents of compromised data were caused by executives, employees, IT administrators and other authorised personnel. The other 44% of leakages were the result of external attacks and former employees. (Figure 1) Figure 1 “It is a disturbing sign to see that a relatively high percentage of leaks stem from top managers and system administrators who fall into the category of ‘privileged users’,” said Vladimir Shutemov, Chief International Business Development Officer of InfoWatch Group. Shutemov, who also heads InfoWatch SEA operations based
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