But why? Where is this statistic coming from? Well, that stat was followed up with “66% of employees admit to taking data from previous employees” and, while admitting to this possibly being a cynical outlook, Code42 believes “the other 34% from that survey are lying.” Data loss from insiders now accounts for 34% of threats, and its growing,” said Abhik. However, they began their presentation with some pretty alarming stats from a different threat source – insider threat. Malware, phsishing, smishing and all the other tricks in the book. Many people are aware of the outside threats a company faces. Insider threat: Employees taking data when they quit At least this is the belief of Abhik Mitra and Cory Ranschau from Code42 and Matt Bauer from Crowdstrike, setting the stage for “How to Keep Data Safe: Data Loss Protection and macOS Catalina” 2019 Jamf Nation User Conference session.

Security is at the forefront of people’s minds as more data is captured around the threats that companies of all size are facing on a daily basis, but that shouldn’t ever be a reason that a company shies away from adopting Mac.

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