The class of cyber actor with the greatest capacity to cause harm to organizations is not the so called state-sponsored hacker or cyber-terrorists. It is the “insider” – the company’s employees, ex-employees, and trusted vendors. Most IT systems are protected by defensive technologies which present a significant hurdle to unauthenticated outsiders. However, the company insiders have authentication credentials that allow them past the defensive technologies and provide them with access to the company’s intellectual property.
2024 Insider Risk Preparedness Checklist
Odds are that your organization will experience at least one threat in 2024, if not more than one. IBM estimates that a single threat costs an organization an average of $4.35 million, not to mention the work to contain and clean up, and the potential damage to the...
