Author: Adam Blake
Instead of doing Wikipedia-esque overview of what Insider Threat is and how much it costs industry every year, I am going to assume you can infer what it is and acknowledge that there are likely pissed off and oblivious people in your workplace that can negatively affect the company.
Insider threat can express itself in many forms: willfully malicious and due to poor business practices and security standards. In my experience, it is always: easy to catch stupid actions, difficult to catch malicious, and impossible to save the company from its workers 100% of the time. This is not unique to insider threat or computers of course as there are still people who will let their kid jump in the gorilla enclosure at the zoo, but it is our mission to make that as difficult as possible and attempt to address the risk before the user sits on the zoo fence and pulls out the selfie stick.
More after the break...
Insider threat can express itself in many forms: willfully malicious and due to poor business practices and security standards. In my experience, it is always: easy to catch stupid actions, difficult to catch malicious, and impossible to save the company from its workers 100% of the time. This is not unique to insider threat or computers of course as there are still people who will let their kid jump in the gorilla enclosure at the zoo, but it is our mission to make that as difficult as possible and attempt to address the risk before the user sits on the zoo fence and pulls out the selfie stick.
More after the break...
