High court cases involving insider theft of data increased by 25 percent in one year, a London-based law firm told InfoSecurity.
There were 40 court cases in 2015 in which malicious insiders stole data from corporate companies, but that number rose to 50 in 2016. An increase in staff turnover could be to blame, said Felix Dodd, a senior solicitor for the law firm EMW.
"Theft of confidential data has become such a widespread concern for firms in the city that many of them ban their employees from sending work emails to their personal accounts, and some now even disable some functions on their employees' smartphones," Mr. Dodd told InfoSecurity. "Bigger businesses should have the systems in place to be able to monitor activity like this effectively, but a lot of smaller businesses might not have the budget or skills to track what their employees are doing with sensitive data."
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