The risk of incidents where rogue employees steal customer data (see Shopify’s incident here) will increase as more merchants move their operations online.
It is important for organizations to not only protect against external cyberthreats, but to secure customer data and Enterprise data in general from rogue employees who may look to profit from it. Governance Risk and Compliance (“GRC”) software such as IBM OpenPages (there are a number of GRC offerings available from a variety of vendors), help organizations provision user access to data to mitigate the risk of data misuse and theft. In our experience company management teams allocate more time and energy to protecting against external threats than those from within the enterprise.