Best Practice Report

Best Practices: Mitigating Insider Threat

Processes: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

March 18th, 2021
Joseph Blankenship, VP, Research Director
Joseph Blankenship VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Heidi Shey , Alexis Tatro , Peggy Dostie

Summary

Whether accidental or malicious, insider incidents can result in financial fraud, privacy abuses, intellectual property theft, or damage to infrastructure. It’s difficult for security pros to detect this suspicious activity because insiders need to have privileged access to data to do their jobs. Since insiders are people and, therefore, entitled to privacy and due process, security pros must handle these incidents with greater care than external threats. This report describes how to build an insider threat program.

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