Insider Threat Program Strategy
Keep up with the changing nature of employee and contractor risk within
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Insider threat program improvements needed
Insider threats are often discovered only after the fact. Predicting risks, especially from malicious attacks, is critical to insider threat program success. Yet malicious incidents persist, representing 37% of all insider threat events.1 Agencies can bolster insider threat programs with new data to identity potentially malicious risks before they occur.
Identifying and Reducing Insider Risk
Chris Cummiskey, Former Acting Undersecretary for Management at DHS, discusses how to recognize insider threats.
Smarter insider threat programs
Completely preventing insider threats is virtually impossible.
However, with a strong insider threat program, reducing risk can
be accomplished.
To implement a complete insider threat program, agencies should adopt a data collection and monitoring framework that includes the following:
Organizational Processes
Helps detect suspect attitudes and behaviors
- Culture
- Performance reviews
- Analytics
- Workflows
Internal information
Helps identity suspect use of internal data and resources
- Cybersecurity controls
- Activity monitoring
- Internet traffic
- Data loss
External information
Helps uncover at-risk individuals and suspect associations
- Traditional credit
- Alternative financial
- Public records
- PAEI
- Device intelligence
Using this framework enables agencies and contractors to better identify insiders who should be considered for threat evaluation and investigation.
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