Global causes of sensitive information loss 2023

According to a 2023 survey of Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) worldwide, 70 percent of sensitive data loss at organizations happens because of carless users, A further 48.1 percent of the respondents said Compromised systems caused data loss. Additionally, around 20 percent of respondents, malicious employee or contractor was the cause behind their incidents.

Most common causes of sensitive information loss in worldwide organizations in 2023

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March 2024

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Worldwide

Survey time period

January to September 2023

Number of respondents

1,600 respondents

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Chief Information Security Officers (CISO); encountered loss of sensitive information in the past 12 months

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: “ Point internal data was sourced from our Proofpoint information protection platform between January and September 2023 and from randomly selected Tessian deployments between January and December 2023.

“For survey data, Proofpoint partnered with cybersecurity market research firm, CyberEdge Group, to develop the 15-question survey instrument, to localize the survey instrument into non-English languages, to host the survey, to facilitate survey completions by qualified research participants and to analyze survey results. Respondents are IT security professionals employed by a commercial, nonprofit or government organization with 1,000 or more employees.

Research participants were drawn from 12 countries and 17 industries. With a sample size of 600 participants, the global survey margin of error (at a standard 95% confidence level) is 4%. All results pertaining to individual countries and industries should be viewed as anecdotal, as their sample sizes are much smaller. Proofpoint recommends making actionable decisions based on global data only.”

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