“New Ponemon Institute Report Finds Most Employees Have Too Much Access, Multiplying Damage When Accounts Are Compromised: August 2016”

• Closing Security Gaps to Protect Corporate Data: A Study of US and European Organizations – “…IT respondents say insider negligence is more than twice as likely to cause the compromise of insider accounts as any other culprits, including external attackers,
  malicious employees or contractors. When a data breach occurs, 50 percent of IT respondents say insiders who are negligent and most likely to cause a compromise…”