Challenges around data protection and the insider threat have changed significantly over the past few years. The build out of digital business to encompass outsourcers, partners, and offshore centers, combined with the motivation of increasingly sophisticated hackers and identity thieves, puts more sensitive information at greater risk than ever before.

Some of the significant findings of this survey of 151 decision-makers at North American companies were:

• More than half of respondents (52%) have lost confidential data through removable media such as USB drives in the past two years.
• Intellectual property, customer data and company financials are the top three concerns for data loss at the endpoint.
• Downloading confidential data to desktop and laptop PCs is a significant threat: 76 percent of respondents said they are not satisfied with the visibility they have into confidential data being downloaded to PCs.
• Most organizations (69%) are actively pursuing Endpoint DLP solutions.