Gurucul, is a California, United States-based company that is known for its innovative solutions for the Next Generation SIEM market, and also provides other companies with risk intelligence to detect, prevent, and deter advanced internal and external threats and fraud. 

The company with its 600,000+ member online community for information security professionals has published its annual 2023 Insider Threat Report. In the survey, more than 325 cybersecurity professionals participated. The report talks about the latest trends and challenges the organizations are dealing with as they try hard to protect their systems from changing insider threats. 

Along with these areas, the survey also highlighted — how worldwide companies are preparing to protect their critical data and IT infrastructure. The report indicates that insider threats for organizations are a top concern of all other kinds of cyber threats. However, only 3% of respondents surveyed are not concerned with insider risk. 

As per the data, organizations have never felt more helpless and vulnerable than today. Cyber threats are increasing at a faster pace. Three-quarters of respondents said they feel moderate to extremely vulnerable to insider threats – an increase of 8% over the previous year. 

Around, 74% of organizations have reported that insider attacks have become more frequent (a 6% increase over last year), with 60% experiencing at least one attack and 25% experiencing more than six attacks. Additionally, 87% of organizations consider unified visibility and control across all apps, systems, web destinations, on-premises resources, and infrastructure to be moderate to extremely important. 

Following the report Saryu Nayyar, Gurucul CEO said, “This report sheds light on some of the most interesting insider threat challenges facing organizations today. While it shows that 86% are using some sort of solution to monitor user behavior in some way, it was surprising to see that access logging was the primary method and that only 25% are using automated tools to monitor user behavior 24×7.” 

Furthermore, more than half of respondents reported that detecting insider threats is very hard in the cloud and that uptime and performance of tools like SASE and CASB are crucial for success. 

“The types of monitoring and analytics used to detect insider threats vary widely between organizations. This highlights the need for better tools and processes to analyze data behavior, user behavior, access, and movement across a network both internally and externally to detect and prevent insider attacks,” Nayyar further added.