Bad Guys Don’t Always Wear Black
With trends in digitization and information sharing, risks associated with insider threats – sabotage, fraud, and sensitive data theft, have increased, as have avenues to profit from selling sensitive information. Not all insiders in working for themselves; organized crime, competitors, and nation-states have discovered that there’s no reason to hack from the outside when you can recruit from within.
For years organizations have worked diligently to lockdown their perimeters from external threats only to find out that the most devastating enemy is already inside. Today most organizations would agree that their most valuable IT assets reside within applications and databases. Most would probably also agree that these are areas that have the weakest levels of security thus making them the prime target for malicious activity from system administrators, DBAs, contractors, consultants, partners, customers, temps, and so on. Insider threats are no longer opaque; the evidence is there, the threat is credible.
Rather than focusing on process or technology, this paper examines people. It is based on years of experience and research and offers detailed analysis into the “anatomy of an insider” with the goal of illuminating that which makes insiders tick.
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