Eric Ewald is the Insider Risk Lead, Cyber Technology Solutions Group at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Current challenges & risks
At this point, we can all admit that Insider Risk Management and IP security programs are difficult for many organizations to operationalize. Our programs must ensure that monitoring procedures don’t infringe on the privacy rights of our employees and business partners. Further, we must also drive collaboration within the proverbial “business” to ensure protections for critical IP and trade secrets focus on what really matters. Our solutions must also simultaneously ensure that the controls we implement maximize user experience and minimize unnecessary “security friction”. Lastly, we have to add responsibility for program governance and oversight to this long list of initiatives.
If we don’t cover all of our bases before we start to operate, our programs can erode organizational trust to the point where any and all support is lost and our program ceases to operate (yikes!). That’s quite a tough pill to swallow for many companies who struggle to secure funding for cybersecurity people resources and technologies, especially considering the cyber…
