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Federal IT Managers Struggle With Persistent Insider Cybersecurity Threat

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

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Nearly a quarter of all federal agencies lost data to a cyber incident in the period between May 2016 and May 2017, according to a survey of federal information technology (IT) managers.MeriTalk, which reports news and conducts governmental IT analysis, released their annual federal insider threat report, Insider Job: The Sequel, on May 15. The report details the consistent presence of insider threats to federal agencies.Forty-two percent of federal agencies in 2017 experienced cyber incidents perpetrated by insiders, a rate that fell…

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