For long, companies have been too timid to report, recognize, or act against employees who have become a threat to their organization. Often, insider threat attacks are embarrassing or considered just an issue for the Human Resource departments. The insider threat is like a black mark on the management processes and the company’s reputation.
Insiders always have advantages over external factors seeking to circumvent security as employees enjoy significantly higher levels of privileges and trust along with extensive knowledge of organizational policies, processes, and procedures. Insider threats are difficult to catch because these are people having authorized access to the network and applications. Sometimes even business partners compromise security through misuse, negligence, or malicious access to or use of an asset raising the security threat. Detecting and mitigating such a wide array of insider threats requires a specific approach compared to hunting for external threats.
15% of the data breaches and 20% of cybersecurity incidents that were investigated within the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) originated from people within the organization….
