How a personal crisis for security workers can magnify risk
I am not alone in registering concern — I reached out to Mark van Zadelhoff, CEO of Mimecast, a cybersecurity company that specializes in email security and risk management, and his take was sobering.
“With the new administration’s push to downsize government, the rapid turnover of personnel — through position eliminations and transitions — creates a heightened risk of data exposure,” Zadelhoff told CSO.
“Departing employees pose significant risk: 80% of departing employees take valuable IP when they leave an organization, according to [Mimecast’s] 2024 Data Exposure Report. Government employees carry the same risks when they depart, but the potential consequences, given their data access and its value to other nations, are on a much grander scale,” he said.
