RANT Roundtable in partnership with Mimecast

Here’s a stat to chew on: According to the latest Verizon DBIR, 29% of security incidents in the EMEA region involve internal actors. Most of these (19%) stem from unintentional mistakes — but don’t ignore the 8% caused by misuse. When a single insider can cause significant damage, that’s a risk you simply can’t afford to overlook.

Despite the relatively small percentage, insider threats are a harsh and growing reality for many organisations. The actions of employees using collaboration tools like Slack, Teams, Zoom, Webex, Reddit, and WorkJam are often the hardest to detect — some insiders misuse their access for years before being discovered. Human risk is rapidly becoming cybersecurity’s most critical vulnerability, with just 8% of users responsible for a staggering 80% of insider-related incidents.

So, how can you spot and stop this kind of behaviour before it causes harm? Is there a way to anticipate risky activity? Leveraging tools like sentiment detection not only helps reduce the likelihood of sensitive data loss and non-compliance but also supports data protection and compliance with regulatory requirements.

The question isn’t whether insider risk exists in your organisation — it’s whether you’re using AI effectively to address the risks before they escalate — whether accidental, intentional, or policy-based. Now is the moment to explore how you can identify sentiment and harassing language, uncover blind spots, and gain unprecedented visibility into workplace collaboration.

Join senior cybersecurity leaders and experts from Mimecast for an open discussion on one of the most sensitive challenges in security today: how organisations can detect insider risk, protect critical data, and accelerate threat response — without overwhelming security teams or disrupting productivity.