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.
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24 percent of non-financial services firms state that abuse of privileges is the greatest threat.
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77 percent of financial firms are mostly concerned with human error.
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48 percent of database pros at financial firms are kept awake at night at the thought of insider privilege misuse.
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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.
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In spite of these threats, only 38 percent of organizations use role-based access control tools to manage access to databases.
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And just 36 percent have a database activity monitoring solution installed.
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In fact, fewer than half of respondents even patch their database systems within a day of update availability.