The costs associated with insider threats continued to rise in 2022. This is bad news for organizations that are already under financial pressure from the uncertainty of the economy. As interest rates continue to climb and customers become more conservative about how they spend, the last thing that any organization needs is to be putting out fires from security incidents coming from arsonists inside their own house.

When it comes to insider threats and cybersecurity in general, experts often discuss how to practice policies of containment, and use these to mitigate threats. One fundamental way to do this is through the process of network segmentation.

If cyber threats feel like faceless intruders, you’re only considering a fraction of the risk. Insider threats pose a challenge for organizations, often catching them by surprise as they focus on securing the perimeter. There is a bright side, however. Understanding the threat landscape and developing a security plan will help you to mitigate risk and prevent cyber incidents. When designing your strategy, be sure to account for insider threats.

Privileged access management was designed to prevent human errors and reinforce security in general. However, even though this approach has been used for decades, studies still show that human error contributes to 95% of cyber attacks. So what are organizations doing wrong? Are they using privileged data access in the best way possible? Sadly, many companies don’t put much thought into using their security systems correctly, but there is an easy way to fix this.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines insider threat as “the potential for an insider to use their authorized access or understanding of an organization to harm that organization.” The nature of insider threats is fairly wide-ranging. Most of us in the security field will naturally think of insider threats in cybersecurity terms, but CISA’s definition includes things like espionage, terrorism, and workplace violence.

While a majority of discourse in the cybersecurity industry is focused on external threats – malicious hacking, phishing, and the like – the fact is that internal actors are just as capable of causing damage to an enterprise, if not more so. An insider threat may have access to resources or areas of the network that someone outside the organization would need to do extra work to obtain.

Knowledge is power. Especially in the hands of your competitors. Information about your company, its products and services, finances, sales, and marketing strategy is a weapon of modern economic warfare. That’s why it’s important to ensure that your organization’s data is well-protected. In this article, we explain (with real-life examples) how corporate spies attack and discuss how to prevent industrial espionage.

Cloud computing is the most cost-effective way to store and manage data and meet growing business demands today. However, the rapid rise of cloud usage means you need to stay alert to potential cloud security insider threats that can compromise your sensitive data and security posture. In this post, we discuss the insider threat landscape, explore several types of cloud insider threats, and examine the best practices to combat these threats.

Your organization might leverage cloud computing because of its practical advantages: flexibility, rapid deployment, cost efficiency, scalability, and storage capacity. But do you put enough effort into ensuring the cybersecurity of your cloud infrastructure? You should, as data breaches and leaks, intellectual property theft, and compromise of trade secrets are still possible in the cloud.

Government offices deal with sensitive information all the time. In fact, they deal with the most sensitive kinds of information—classified information, data assets requiring security clearance, or other kinds of classified material subject to additional government requirements. So how do governments deal with insider threats? The federal government has established some pretty extensive and detailed policies to keep data safe.