CISOs Spending More On Insider Risk
ComputerWeekly, Monday, February 24th, 2025
Insider risk management budgets have more than doubled in the past 12 months and look set to grow further still in 2025, according to a report
Chief information security officers (CISOs) and other security buyers and leaders seem increasingly inclined to earmark more money to address threats arising from insider risk, according to a study, the 2025 Cost of insider risks global report, published this week by topic specialist DTEX Systems and analysts at the Ponemon Institute.
DTEX's annual survey of almost 350 organisations around the world found that the average annual cost of insider threats reached $17.4m (13.7m UK pounds) last year, and in responding to these growing costs, average insider risk spend doubled from 8.2% of the total cyber budget in 2023 to 16.5% in 2024.