Insider threats stories

Insider threats come from people inside an enterprise, whether they divulge proprietary information with nefarious intentions, or are just careless employees that unwittingly share sensitive data, writes Bitglass product marketing manager Juan Lugo.More

Today, Techday speaks to Bitglass senior director of marketing Jonathan Andresen, who discusses insider attacks and the best solutions and practices to employ to protect organisations and employees.More

The solution will give customers a fuller picture of their environment, and will leverage automated incident response to obstruct insider threat before data loss occurs.More

It comes as rapid migration to cloud and remote working and BYOD scenarios leave organisations increasingly vulnerable to insider attacks as a result of the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.More

The solution employs behavioural analytics algorithms to find malicious user activities and automates the review of privileged account activities. More

Proofpoint will hand over US$225 million as part of a new arrangement to acquire insider threat management platform ObserveIT.More

While larger organisations and incidents hog the headlines, plenty of illicit activity is slipping under the radar – and staying there.More

The financial services sector reported the second-highest number of data breaches in the 12-month period covered by the latest OIAC report. More

While strengthening your organisation’s external defences with the latest tools and technologies makes sound sense, it’s only half a battle plan.More

The biggest challenge for most external threat actors is gaining access to a target organisation, but insider threats already have this. More

Insider threat is real, according to a new report that highlights employee behaviour around sharing corporate information.More

Companies are too often hesitant to recognise, report or take action against employees who have become a threat to their organisation. More

Cybersecurity professionals could be wasting as many as 10 hours per week on tasks because of software that isn’t fit for the purpose.More

Korean insurance provider KB Life has taken on Darktrace machine learning technology to prevent cyber threats.More

US insider threat and fraud detection vendor Securonix is eyeing up the Australian and NZ markets, as security breaches from within raise concerns.More

While S&R professionals often think “outside-in” first when assessing threats, awareness of internal threats can also be a key requirement.More

“The bottom line is, internally generated email, whether staying inside or going out, needs to be part of every organisation’s threat detection."More