There are several best practices that businesses should take into consideration when institutionalizing insider threat practices during the COVID crisis.
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It likely won’t come as a surprise to most companies that a time of significant disruption and change, like the COVID-19 crisis, can heighten organizational risk, not only externally but also internally. With many companies having made the shift to remote work at the start of the pandemic, and that trend likely to continue for the foreseeable future, the likelihood of cyber and technological threats from employees themselves has increased significantly.
Large-scale remote work has significantly reduced organizations’ visibility into the digital and interpersonal behavior of their workforces. It has also hampered their ability to detect, investigate, and resolve potential issues. For employees under stress or predisposed to acting in ways that are harmful to the business, this provides the time, space, and tacit license to do things they otherwise would or could not. Additionally, the workforce is one of the most reliable channels for reporting troubling employee behavior,…
