insider threat
Data lurking: How to protect your company against overlooked insider threats
Enterprises often fear hackers as their number one security threat. However, they should be more scared of what happens internally. More often than not, data breaches come …
IT pros are taking action against the insider threat
2015 is set to see a huge rise in the number of IT professionals taking action to address insider threat in their organizations. Currently 56% of IT professionals in the US …
Insider threats continue to dominate
Ordinary employees, privileged users and the supply chain – such as contractors and third party service providers – are all conduits for a traditional insider …
How to determine if insiders should be your primary concern
We learned throughout our lives that if we experience the same problem over and over again in a certain situation, we should probably change something in our own behavior / …
Why insider threat is thriving
In the past few years, rapid growth in the volume of sensitive information combined with new technologies has chipped away at the effectiveness of traditional endpoint …
Employees are still the biggest IT threat
Well-funded hackers with sophisticated tools made headlines and worried organizational leadership throughout 2014, yet the primary reason endpoint security risk has become …
Morgan Stanley fires insider who leaked client data on Pastebin
Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley has announced on Monday that it has fired an employee of its Wealth Management Group following the theft of “partial client …
How employees put your company at risk during the holidays
Most enterprises of any significant size have implemented security training programs, designed to teach employees how to avoid major security risks – phishing attacks …
1 in 5 employees going rogue with corporate data
Companies around the world have reason to be worried about the use of cloud applications to share mission-critical information. In fact, 1 in 5 employees has uploaded …
Insider threats 101: The threat within
Recent events – both in the United States and in Japan – have forced IT administrators everywhere to reevaluate the possibility of insider threats. Because of …
Things that freak out IT security pros
Ghosts and zombies aren’t the only things coming back from the dead this Halloween. Below is a list of the top security threats that organisations should be most aware …
AT&T suffers another insider breach
US telecom AT&T has lately been having problems with malicious insiders, and the latest incident has resulted in the compromise of account and personal information of a …
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