Conventional wisdom has led us to believe that external security threats - such as spam, viruses, phishing, trojan horses - cause the majority of security incidents.
While this may be true, too few companies are paying sufficient attention to the very significant issue of internal threats from unrestricted use of corporate IT systems.
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