When The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
Symantec, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Whether careless or malicious, insiders can cause all manner of nightmares
- Insider threats are haunting organizations: 83% reported insider attacks last year, with cases exceeding 10 grew 5X.
- Complex, shadowy IT environments, lax policies, and increasingly convincing AI-driven phishing turn well-meaning employees into unwitting monsters.
- Arm your defenders with Defense in Depth: strong email security, Zero Trust, SSE/web gateway, EDR, and DLP to stop insider tricks at the door.
Halloween tends to summon all kinds of frights. But for security professionals, the haunting thought of threat actors lurking in their environment is year-round. On top of those lingering fears comes the real jump scare: the instant you realize an attack is underway-or worse, that a breach has already happened.