Combatting the Insider Threat

Organizations commonly focus a large portion of their security strategy around potential outside cyber threats. However, insider threats also pose significant risk. Defending against these threats should not be overlooked and should become a critical component of your overall security strategy.

Understanding insider behaviors and activities is the first step to safeguarding against these potential threats, but it is not the solely on the security team, it is an organizational wide issues that requires organizational wide attention.

In this white paper, you will learn to better understand the potential damage an insider threat can cause an organization and appropriate identification techniques to help you mitigate the risk they pose to an organization. Additionally, you will discover that building an Insider Threat Interdisciplinary Working Group is critical for observing and documenting behaviors and actions so that proactive measures can be taken to protect your organization against these type of threats.

• Individuals within your organization that pose the highest threat risk
• Both behavioral and technical actions that can help you identify potential insider threats
• The importance of implementing an Insider Threat Interdisciplinary Working Group
• How to overcome operational weaknesses that lead to potential insider threat attacks