For years, researchers have studied malicious insider threats. But how can organizations protect themselves from insiders who make a mistake or are taken advantage of in a way that puts the organization at risk?
An arrest has been made in a major insider fraud case at a small banking institution in Ohio. One fraud-fighting expert says this scheme should never have flown under the radar of banking regulators.
The average insider scheme lasts 32 months before it's detected, says threat researcher Jason Clark, who suggests using a combination of the right technologies and the right processes is the key to improving detection.
Randy Trzeciak and his CERT Insider Threat Center colleagues are working to broaden the definition of the insider threat to incorporate not just the risk to information and IT but to facilities and people, too.
To address the insider threat, Jeremy Walczak of Independent Health is using a privileged identity management system. Walczak and other experts offer detailed insights on mitigating emerging threats.
While user education is valuable, needed and helpful, there is one problem with this approach - it only partially works, and partially working is simply not good enough, security expert George Tubin contends.
The author of the forthcoming book "Secrets and Leaks" explains why the acts of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden don't carry the same weight as those of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.
What are the costs involved with defending against the insider threat? Randy Trzeciak and George Silowash of Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Insider Threat Center offer insights.
Here are some questions we'd like to ask the former systems administrator at the National Security Agency to learn more about the motivation behind his leak of the U.S. government's top-secret information collection programs.
The federal government has identified dozens of cases of alleged falsification of reports submitted by investigators - federal employees and contractors - examining individuals being considered for security clearances.
Maintaining accurate logs of systems' activities is crucial in helping catch insiders who threaten an organization's digital assets, says George Silowash, co-author of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats.
Why are ATM cash-out schemes expected to increase - especially in the U.S.? John Buzzard of FICO's Card Alert Service offers insights, based on federal investigators' most recent global fraud bust.
CERT Technical Manager Dawn Cappelli tells a tale of how three individuals, who unexpectedly quit their jobs at a law firm, used a free cloud service to sabotage files containing proprietary client information from their former employer.
Cloud computing providers must step up and develop approaches to prevent their employees from stealing or harming customer data they host, say two experts from Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Insider Threat Center.
From managers who steal to innocent employees who are duped, the insider threat is evolving. Researchers Dawn Cappelli and Randy Trzeciak share their latest insight on malicious and accidental insider risks.
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