Insider threats continue to pose significant concerns in today's digital landscape. While malicious insiders have garnered attention due to harmful intent, negligent users often make unintentional mistakes, contributing to potential cybersecurity risks.
As the threat landscape continues to evolve, defenders need to shift their focus from individual wins to sustained proactive defenses. Resecurity COO Shawn Loveland proposes embracing a strategy of understanding and fighting adversaries in a constantly changing space - with no beginning and no end.
Human Factor Security expert Robin Lennon Bylenga advised that in building an internal threat management program, it is imperative to not send mixed messages to the broader workforce. It's wise to conduct an assessment of human risk - not just IT risk, she said.
Malicious insiders and compromised credentials are threats that often go undetected by traditional security tools. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) analyzes behavior in organizations’ environments to set a baseline for normal and detect anomalies that indicate real threats in need of investigating.
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Do you know what the biggest threat is to your organization? The answer may surprise you. It’s your own employees, contractors, and other insiders. These trusted insiders have authorized access to sensitive information and can cause significant harm to your organization, whether they mean to or not. Insider threats...
Legacy DLP is broken due to excess complexity, extended time to value and misalignment with security and business goals, said Next's Chris Denbigh-White. Addressing insider threats in a meaningful way is one of the biggest data protection challenges for organizations, he said.
80% of breaches originate outside of the organization, while only about 20% begin with trusted insiders, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s possible that because many organizations haven’t yet experienced a breach from an insider threat, they perceive external threats as the...
According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, insider threats and credential-based attacks comprise the majority of security breaches (over 90%) impacting organizations. Insider attacks involve malicious and negligent activity against an organization that originate from people who have been granted...
Insider risk can come from malicious, negligent, or compromised insiders - those with trusted credentials within your organization. Insiders are authorized to use IT resources, so conventional security tools offer little detection power to distinguish whether authorized actions have malicious intent. If an insider...
Insider threats continue to rise, increasing 44% over two years, according to the 2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats report. With growing corporate layoffs and challenging financial conditions, there is a clear risk of disgruntled employees exfiltrating IP and financial data. Some of the most challenging threats to...
While financial fraud has been prevalent for years, businesses still struggle to find it among large pools of data. In this second installment on accounting fraud, a panel of experts discussed the challenges including a lack of resources, skills and tools to identify fraud.
A Cleveland-based healthcare system is notifying a not-yet-disclosed number of individuals about an incident involving unauthorized medical records access by an employee that continued for 15 years. The safety-net organization says the worker has been disciplined.
In this post of his blog "A CISO's View," security director Ian Keller discusses the importance of having mechanisms in place to report potential personal compromise or potential compromise of another person in your company and provides simple steps for making security everyone's responsibility.
An IT security analyst has confessed to trying to blackmail his employer by altering ransom notes sent from a hacker to a board member and changing the cryptocurrency payment address to one he controlled. After his employer detected the unusual activity, U.K. police traced it back to the worker.
Nickolas Sharp, a one-time employee of Ubiquity who pleaded guilty to insider hacking received Wednesday a six year prison sentence. He admitted guilt on Feb. 2 to three criminal counts including transmitting a program to a protected computer that intentionally caused damage.
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