insider threat

The potential risk that employees and officers of a company can cause more harm to the IT infrastructure or to the company in general than external threats such as viruses and cracker attacks. Also known as an "authorized user threat," disgruntled employees have easy access to confidential data, especially if their feelings are not made public.

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Not every insider breach is the result of reckless or negligent employees, but regardless, the presence of human error in breaches means organisations must invest in technology that works alongside the user in mitigating the insider threat."

Alarming statistics show human error remains primary cause of personal data breaches; 60% of ICO-reported breaches this year are caused by human error, with healthcare the most-affected sector

Washington, DC, August 09, 2019 --(PR.com)-- DSI's 4th Annual Insider Threat Symposium will bring together leaders from the Federal government, private industry, and academia to discuss the challenge of mitigating insider threats and developing effective insider threat programs.

Defense Strategies Institute Presents: 4th Insider Threat Symposium

They probably won't even know they're doing something wrong, but they have inadvertently just become an unintentional insider threat. As Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services, CORVID, explains, organisations need to stop playing the blame game and pointing fingers at users when the system is compromised and instead ensure they have the right technology in place to take back control of their security defences.

Could Your Most Trusted Employee Be Your Biggest Threat?

According to the 2018 Insider Threat Report by Cybersecurity Insiders, two-thirds of organizations consider malicious insider attacks or accidental breaches more likely than external attacks.

CODE42 DEBUTS NEXT-GEN DATA LOSS PROTECTION SOLUTION

'Having identified the risk attached to insider threat, we have over 500 cameras already installed and we are still going to put more.

FAAN Deploys CCTV Cameras At Abuja Airport

A graduate of both TU and the University of Oklahoma, Crystal Lister is the co-founder of Global Professional Services Group, a Reston, Virginia-based firm that specializes in digital security and insider threat risk management.

Cybersecurity risk and reality

In light of this, you should be asking yourself a critical question: Do I have a tool that can detect insider threat?

Taking a more proactive approach to cyber defence

The subject of insider threat is an area of great interest.

Advanced insider threat detection model to apply periodic work atmosphere

* Threat events in the cloud, such as a compromised account, privileged user, or insider threat, have increased 27.7 per cent YoY

Sensitive cloud data 'could pose risk to enterprises'

Fortinet announced that it has completed the acquisition of ZoneFox Limited, a privately-held cloud-based insider threat detection and response company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Fortinet acquires cloud-based threat analytics company ZoneFox

Background investigations are critical to addressing Insider Threat because it is the thorough vetting that occurs during a background investigation that moves an individual from not having access to national security information to having access to our most sensitive information.