In today’s threatening cyber landscape, it’s common for companies to spend time, money and effort to protect from external attacks. However, the worst threats might be sitting right in front of you, operating from the inside, risking the exposure of trade secrets, customer data and more. With so many employees, contractors, partners and vendors with legitimate access to company systems, it’s easy for unintentional or even malicious leaks to occur.
Prepare your organization against insider threat
Staggering 44% increase in insider threat incidents
Theft or loss of mission critical data or intellectual property
Impact of downtime on organizational productivity
Cost to detect and remediate systems and processes
Legal and regulatory impact, including litigation defense cost
Lost confidence and trust among key stakeholders
Diminished marketplace brand and reputation
Insider attacks are getting worse, taking longer to detect and becoming more extensive. The impact to an organization can be catastrophic.
innerActiv provides fast, actionable insider risk intelligence that analyzes employee, endpoint and data activity to expose risk and protect your organization from within
Analyze risky behavior
The vast majority of security threats follow a pattern or sequence of activity leading up to an attack, and insider threats are no exception. Insider threat intelligence is needed to measure, detect and contain undesirable behavior of trusted accounts within an organization. Through continuous monitoring of user and system access, activity and data movement, a baseline of trusted behavior can be established to bring risks that you may not even notice to light.
Detect and triage threats in real-time
Insider threats can be harder to identify or prevent than outside attacks and are invisible to traditional security solutions like firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Real-time threat detection monitors all user, data, infrastructure and network activity to identify trends and anomalies based on modeled behavior and custom configured security policies. Alerts and dashboard views provide real-time investigation and knowledge of “who, what, when, why, where” to determine how to respond to any vulnerability.
Contain incidents and minimize impact
When anomalies appear, determining whether the irregularities are, in fact, potential insider threats can be costly to an organization. In fact, according to a recent report from Ponemon, 2022 Cost of Insider Threats Global Report, impacted organizations spent $15.4 million annually on overall remediation and took 85 days to contain each incident. By anticipating versus reacting to workplace shifts or suspicious activity, lower the cost of investigations and overall operational impact to your organization.
Meet compliance and workforce productivity
With today’s cloud connected, distributed and highly collaborative workforce, employees are your biggest asset and potentially your biggest risk. Secure work practices coupled with intelligence can identify and differentiate between well-meaning employees, and malicious insiders trying to steal sensitive business data. Built-in case management with deep forensic details and history of all incidences ensure compliance.
Prevent future attacks with increased security and resiliency
When considering your cybersecurity planning and readiness, insider threat management can no longer be ignored. Today the most highly regulated industries, such as the public sector and financial services, are leading the way spending on average about twenty-five percent of their security budget to combat insider risk. Proactive defense intelligence and risk telemetry can combat compliance or security anomalies and safeguard your organization.
Want to ready your organization with resiliency? Suspect an insider threat? Need to investigate and contain an incident? innerActiv can help your organization protect from within
What is insider threat?
An insider threat is a security risk that comes from within your company. Employees, partners, vendors, interns, suppliers or contractors can potentially become an insider threat. These people have legitimate access to your organization’s internal network and may accidentally leak or purposely steal sensitive information.
Insider threats can affect companies of all sizes in all industries. Whether accidental or intentional insiders can wreak havoc on organizations because they are already authorized to access proprietary information including information about security practices, data, and systems.
Data losses are often accidental. For example, the well-meaning employee who misplaces a thumb drive containing customer records while working from home. Or the busy executive who accidentally adds the wrong recipient on a vital M&A email.
However, other times, losses are malicious – a disgruntled staffer or a contractor on their way to start a new position obtains access to the computer systems or networks, and then conducts activities intended to cause deliberate harm or extract stolen data.
Warning signs to identify insider risk
Accidental
Opening a phishing email
Using a weak or default password
Access attempts to other devices or servers containing sensitive data
Large quantities of data either saved or accessed by a specific user
Attempted access to external USB ports and printers
Negligent
Leaving a highly sensitive laptop unattended
Forgetting to log out before leaving work
Emails containing sensitive data sent to a third party or unsecured location in the cloud
Not keeping devices and services patched and upgraded to the latest versions
Malicious
Remote access to network and data at non-business hours or irregular work hours
Frequent access requests to data unrelated to the employee’s job function
Installing unauthorized software
Multiple attempts to access blocked websites
Unauthorized disabling of antivirus tools and firewall settings
Malware installation