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Insider Threats

The latest News and Information on Insider Threats including employee monitoring and data privacy.

Insider Fraud Prevention: Tips & Tricks for Your Organization

Did you know that even organizations with productive and loyal employees frequently suffer from malicious insiders committing fraud? Such insiders are rather difficult to detect because they mishandle data bit by bit alongside their regular work routine. Moreover, their motives can be unobvious, which makes detecting them even more challenging. In this article, we explore insider fraud and its risks, as well as how to mitigate those risks through a comprehensive insider risk management strategy.

7 Best Practices to Prevent Intellectual Property Theft

Original ideas, developments, and trade secrets help businesses increase their value and stand out among competitors. But as market competition grows, the risks of intellectual property (IP) theft and leaks also grow. Preventing intellectual property theft is a challenge in cybersecurity of organizations that requires implementing proper security policies and procedures. In this article, we explore possible scenarios of intellectual property theft and dig into how to protect your IP.

Guide to User Access Review: What Is It, Best Practices, and Checklist

Every company has workers that have been there from the beginning and worked in every department. Knowledge of the company’s processes makes them valuable employees, but they can also access and put at risk lots of sensitive data. Regular user access reviews can help you mitigate this risk and safeguard your critical assets. Regularly reviewing user access is an essential part of access management.

Guide to User Access Review: What Is It, Best Practices, and Checklist

Every company has workers that have been there from the beginning and worked in every department. Knowledge of the company’s processes makes them valuable employees, but they can also access and put at risk lots of sensitive data. Regular user access reviews can help you mitigate this risk and safeguard your critical assets. Regularly reviewing user access is an essential part of access management.

Detecting and Responding to Unauthorized Access. Top 8 Practices to Implement

Unauthorized access continues to be one of the biggest problems for organizations of all sizes. Its consequences can be severe, ranging from data breaches and financial losses to reputational damage and lawsuits. Therefore, it’s critical for organizations to establish a robust cybersecurity strategy and implement best practices to effectively detect and respond to unauthorized access. In this article, we explore the dangers behind unauthorized access and its key attack vectors.

Insider Risk Hits Closer to Home

If you’re busy securing the perimeter, mandating strong authentication practices, and restricting software downloads, you may be missing the mark. (Just to be clear: if you are doing those things, keep it up. You’re off to a good start, and none of what follows here replaces classic and vital cybersecurity measures.) Protecting your organization from outside threats is foundational to any effective cybersecurity strategy.

How to Prevent Data Theft by Departing Employees: 7 Best Practices

Departing employees are a source of insider threats that often get overlooked. According to a study by Biscom, more than one in four departing employees steal data when leaving. Whether they do so out of negligence or with malicious intent, such cases can only have negative outcomes for organizations, from loss of competitive advantage to penalties for non-compliance with cybersecurity requirements.

The Cybersecurity Risks of AI & How to Safeguard Sensitive Data

Experts in the cybersecurity industry are becoming increasingly concerned about artificial intelligence attacks. A 2020 report from Forrester Consulting found that 88% of decision-makers in the security industry believed offensive AI was on the horizon, and almost two-thirds of them expected AI to lead new attacks.

RKVST mitigating insider threats demo

Mitigate insider threats with RKVST. This demo is an example of how with RKVST it's quick and simple to identify who did what when to any asset so you can quickly see if there has been any malicious activity, when it happened and who was responsible. RKVST provenance-as-a-service enables organizations to authenticate data and build trustworthy digital supply chains. It also makes it quick and easy to locate an asset.

How to Record and Monitor RDP Sessions with Ekran System [Hands-on Guide]

Monitoring remote desktop protocol (RDP) connections to your infrastructure is essential for maintaining a secure IT environment and managing insider risks. Additionally, recording remote user activity on your organization’s servers and other critical endpoints is often a requirement of cybersecurity laws and regulations. This article will guide you on how to monitor RDP connections to your infrastructure server, Jump server, Citrix server, or any other endpoint with Ekran System Client installed.