Security Threats from Internal End Users Drives Adoption of Varonis Systems Solutions.

A survey of IT professionals from Spiceworks reveals that internal end users are the greatest security threat heading into 2016. Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS) believes that this will help to drive adoption of their software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data.
According to the press release:

The study found that, although 80% of organizations experienced a security incident in 2015, 71% expect to be more secure in 2016 and 84% expect security investments to increase.
Key findings from “Battling the Big Hack,” a survey of almost 200 IT professionals conducted in October, reveal that the three greatest areas of concern regarding threats and breaches in 2016 are all directly related to end users’ lack of awareness and vigilance: 54% are very or extremely concerned about Malware, 53% are very or extremely concerned about Ransomware, and 46% are very or extremely concerned about Phishing.
David Gibson, Varonis Vice President of Strategy and Market Development, said, “The severity and frequency of damaging data breaches keep rising, and the lack of awareness that organizations and their users have about protecting sensitive data is becoming a crisis. Companies now realize that their investments in perimeter security alone aren’t preventing attacks and data leaks. After more than a decade of collecting and analyzing metadata from thousands of organizations on the access to, and use of, valuable and sensitive data, our solutions have made Varonis one of the leaders in a new era of inside-out security.”

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