Less than a third of IT security pros feel confident about identifying insider threats with third-party and employee access their biggest concerns according to Atlanta based identity/access management firm Bomgar's report.

In its “2018 Privileged Access Threat Report,” Bomgar also revealed less than 35% of security and IT professionals feel very confident they have ability to identify threats from employees with privileged access; and 75% have seen the number of vendors with access to their networks increase in the last year, but 33% believe they spend too little time monitoring third-party vendor access.

The global survey explored the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations in the U.S. and Europe have over employees, contractors, and third-party vendors with privileged access to their IT networks. According to the report 50% of organizations have suffered a serious data breach or expect to do so in the next six months due to third-party and insider threats.