Insider Attacks and Human Error Is Your Database Safe

56 percent of the non-financial services respondents believe that human error represents the greatest challenge or risk to database security.

24 percent of non-financial services firms state that abuse of privileges is the greatest threat.

77 percent of financial firms are mostly concerned with human error.

48 percent of database pros at financial firms are kept awake at night at the thought of insider privilege misuse.

Among the respondents aware of a data breach that occurred recently, two-thirds indicate that it was a result of either human error or an insider attack.

In spite of these threats, only 38 percent of organizations use role-based access control tools to manage access to databases.

And just 36 percent have a database activity monitoring solution installed.

In fact, fewer than half of respondents even patch their database systems within a day of update availability.