# Sources

> Every number and incident in The ultimate insider, with the public source it comes from, grouped by act.

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Sources

# Every number on screen, and where it comes from

The talk is built from the article [The ultimate insider](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/ultimate-insider-three-collisions.html) on the SGit Newsroom, which links each figure to its source. They are listed here by act, in the order they appear. Where a figure is a prediction, a survey or preliminary, the slide says so.

## Act one: the insider

- Ponemon Institute and DTEX Systems, [2025 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report](https://www.dtex.ai/blog/2025-cost-insider-risks-takeaways/), February 2025: 17.4 million dollars a year on average.
- Anthropic, [Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents), December 2024: an agent as a model in a loop with tools.
- Simon Willison, [The lethal trifecta for AI agents](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/), June 2025.
- EchoLeak, CVE-2025-32711, June 2025: [Hack The Box analysis](https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/cve-2025-32711-echoleak-copilot-vulnerability).
- Replit, July 2025: [account and timeline](https://dev.to/joylo/why-replits-ai-agent-deleted-a-production-database-389p); Jason Lemkin's [original thread](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802).
- Gemini CLI, July 2025: [AI Incident Database entry 1178](https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1178/).
- Amazon Q extension for VS Code, July 2025: [SC Media](https://www.scworld.com/news/amazon-q-extension-for-vs-code-reportedly-injected-with-wiper-prompt).
- Anthropic, [Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d7dd50dd1185f59be051b307150d877f2b82bd2c.pdf), November 2025; MITRE ATT&CK [campaign C0062](https://attack.mitre.org/campaigns/C0062/).
- CyberArk, [2025 Identity Security Landscape](https://www.cyberark.com/press/machine-identities-outnumber-humans-by-more-than-80-to-1-new-report-exposes-the-exponential-threats-of-fragmented-identity-security/), April 2025: 82 to 1, 42 per cent privileged, 88 per cent.

## Act two: the infrastructure

- Microsoft, [2023 State of Cloud Permissions Risks](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-entra-blog/2023-state-of-cloud-permissions-risks-report-now-published/1061397): under 5 per cent, under 2 per cent, 40 per cent.
- ThousandEyes, [AWS outage analysis, 20 October 2025](https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/aws-outage-analysis-october-20-2025).
- Cloudflare, [18 November 2025 outage post-mortem](https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/).
- Palo Alto Unit 42, [SharePoint ToolShell threat brief](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/microsoft-sharepoint-cve-2025-49704-cve-2025-49706-cve-2025-53770/), July to August 2025.
- On this network: [nhi.sgit.ai](https://nhi.sgit.ai/) on non-human identity, [pki.sgit.ai](https://pki.sgit.ai/) on keys for agents, [nfrs.sgit.ai](https://nfrs.sgit.ai/) on the requirements that are not features.

## Act three: the spreadsheet

- Secureframe 2024 survey as reported by [RegScale](https://regscale.com/blog/grc-spreadsheets-problem-symptom/): 48 per cent; SureCloud, [The Risk Reckoning 2025](https://www.surecloud.com/whitepaper/the-risk-reckoning-2025-uk-grc-survey-insights-for-enterprises-smbs).
- Gartner, [over 40 per cent of agentic AI projects cancelled by the end of 2027](https://martech.org/gartner-40-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-fail-making-humans-indispensable/), June 2025, a prediction.
- MIT NANDA, [The GenAI Divide](https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2025/08/19/mit-report-finds-most-ai-business-investments-fail-reveals-genai-divide.aspx), August 2025: preliminary, not peer reviewed.

## The turn, and the way out

- NASA, [Aviation Safety Reporting System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Safety_Reporting_System).
- CISA, [CIRCIA final rule targeted for September 2026](https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/cisa-plans-to-finalize-cyber-incident-reporting-regulations-in-september-2026); the slide gives the status as of the article and is to be checked on the day.
- Verizon, [2025 Data Breach Investigations Report](https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/2025-dbir-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf).
- RiskMandate, [Agent Behaviour Policy](https://riskmandate.ai/abp.html) and [licence to operate](https://riskmandate.ai/licence-to-operate.html).
- The Kit Bag plan, [on sgit.ai](https://sgit.ai/demos/vaults/kit-bag/index.html): thirteen things beyond its purpose, four stopped by the platform.

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