Relentless reporting of new, high-profile insider threat breaches will push many more businesses to finally take insider threat seriously enough to formalize programs and allocate more budget to protecting their IP. In 2019, at least half of data breaches involved an insider, but in 2020, this figure could exceed 60%. Companies will begin to lean into new technologies designed distinctly for protecting from insider threat, rather than shoe-horning in outdated technologies that are ineffective because they were never intended for that purpose. More than 20% of organizations will begin actively measuring what departing employees take from their organization
