As technology professionals, our data security focus tends to automatically fall on digital data. We have cloud repositories, data in motion, and newly created confidential information that all need our attention. It’s easy to forget that a major source of data loss is still the hard copy. Every day our carefully-protected digital assets are being...
Although the rate of employee layoffs has slowed since this time last year, the end is not yet in sight. With the ongoing ripple effect of 2020, many organizations are still grappling with the issue of having a significantly higher number of “ex-employees” than ever before. Still more are seeing this change coming in the...
68 was a big number in 2020 according to the 2020 Insider Threat Report: 68% of organizations report feeling moderately or extremely vulnerable to insider threat and 68% of organizations confirm that insider threats are becoming more frequent. However, just because the problem is recognized, does not make the solution simple. Many organizations struggle to...
Business Insider recently spoke to Jon Ford, managing director of FireEye’s Mandiant Professional Services, on the state of insider threat and their newest Insider Threat Security-as-a-Service offering. The launch of this service has allowed innerActiv to work as a part of the FireEye/Manidiant team to investigate and remediate threats for existing and new customers. Many...
As Identity Theft Awareness Week continues, we need to consider the source and root of identity theft incidents. Those who perpetrate identity theft schemes are often second (or third)-hand users of the identity data. The chain begins with either the organization that leaks the data or the criminal that illegally removes the data from its...
We are officially halfway through Identity Theft Awareness week which runs Feb. 1-5 this year. Are you aware that Identity Theft incidents doubled in 2020? One of the largest surges in these thefts came in the form of false unemployment claims, taking advantage of the huge number of unemployed Americans over the course of the...
“Tesla does not know whether the defendant took additional files, whether he copied files from the Dropbox account to other locations in the days before he was caught, or whether he sent any of the files to other persons or entities,” the company says. Only 3 days after he started at the company, Alex Khatilov...
As we quickly move toward the 4th week of 2021, it may become obvious which resolutions are actually going to see the light of day. While many organizations have made plans for formalizing (or maybe just thinking about) their insider threat program in 2021, most have difficulties deciding where to start. Many more have difficulty...
We’re proud to announce that innerActiv has partnered with FireEye and Mandiant to become a part of Mandiant’s Insider Threat Security Services! These services will provide industry-leading insider risk assessment services to identify active risks and threats, security gaps, and vulnerabilities in your environment, followed by tailored recommendations and action items to address both your...
For those who work in security, it may seem that threats to your data, endpoints, and infrastructure can come from every angle. Unfortunately, many of these threats either originate from or implant themselves within the walls of the organization itself. The term “insider threat” and “UEBA” have evolved to describe this laundry list of potential...
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