More business transactions occur electronically every year, and
organizations are retaining a growing volume of sensitive data.
For many organizations, data has become an invaluable asset —
the lifeblood of their operations. Access to this data is
available to an expanding user base, including employees,
business partners, suppliers and customers. IT infrastructures
are more extensive, more complex, more distributed — and more
accessible. This interconnectedness affords many benefits for
businesses, government agencies and consumers alike — but it
also potentially introduces a great deal of risk. The more
access points an organization maintains, the greater the
possibility of compromised systems or data theft. To help secure
their data, companies have generally focused much of their
efforts on protecting themselves from threats from outside of
the organization. However, a growing wave of data losses caused
by human error and fraud from within the organization illustrate
the degree of risk to companies and gov