Insider threats have been a problem for as long as there have been insiders. What’s changed over time? Well, for one, Brutus and his conspirators didn’t exactly leave a trail…
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Don’t Make Headlines Over an Insider Incident: Lessons From the Frontlines
On the path to becoming more cyber secure, organizations across the globe spend an estimated $60 billion per year to defend their assets, recruit talent and work to prevent and…
#TwitterHack: Power, Privilege and Pandemic
On Wednesday, July 15, the Twitterverse was ablaze with what Twitter itself has described as a “coordinated social engineering attack” that was launched at around 4pm ET. The outcome of…
What We Learned Defining Successful Zero Trust Client Journeys
How and where we work has changed dramatically, and this year, organizations are operating in a new normal. Fortunately, the hybrid multicloud environment has offered us an opportunity to rapidly…
Recalibrate Insider Threat Controls When Your Employees Are Off the Corporate Network
In recent years, remote work has become a growing trend. In 2018, however, only 3.6 percent of Americans worked entirely remotely. Due to changes in the global climate, many employers…
Inadvertent Insider Threats Present a Unique Challenge to Organizations
According to the recent X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020, more than 8.5 billion records were exposed due to breaches in 2019, of which 86 percent were due to misconfigured assets.…
Safeguarding Healthcare for the Future With Zero Trust Security
In 2019, we saw a record number of information security breaches. According to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020, a total of 8.5 billion records were compromised — three…
Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues
Crime doesn’t pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues. This post appeared first…
Why Threat Actors Are Increasingly Conducting Cyberattacks on Local Government
Cyberattacks on local government in the U.S. have increased dramatically over the last several years. In 2019 alone, ransomware affected more than 100 state and local governments, according to Recorded…
We Need More Than Security Awareness to Combat Insider Threats
When I was new to the security industry, I firmly believed that people got infected with malware because they didn’t know how to be safe online. I thought problems happened…