Types of Insider Threats
An insider threat is a security risk that originates within the targeted organization. This doesn’t mean that the actor must be a current employee or officer in the organization. They could be a consultant, former employee, business partner, or board member.
Insiders have the capabilities, motivations, and privileges needed to steal important data – which makes it a CISO’s job to identify and build a defense against all of those attack vectors.
Anyone who has insider knowledge and/or access to the organization’s confidential data, IT, or network resources is a potential insider threat.
- Second StreamersThey are employees that misuse critical information to generate additional income.
- Disgruntled EmployeesCurrent or former employees that commit sabotage or steal information.
- Inadvertent Insiders
It’s just employee negligence caused by accidents, the most common insider.
- Persistent Non-RespondersSome senior executives are the less trained members of an organization, they are the perfect target of social engineering scams.
Digital Warning Signs
- Downloading or accessing substantial amounts of data
- Accessing sensitive data not associated with their job function
- Accessing data that is outside of their unique behavioral profile
- Multiple requests for access to resources not associated with their job function
- Using unauthorized storage devices (e.g., USB drives or floppy disks)
- Network crawling and searches for sensitive data
- Data hoarding, copying files from sensitive folders
- Emailing sensitive data outside the organization
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