Insider Threats

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Definition

Contents 1 Overview of Insider Threats 2 Sources of Insider Threats 2.1 Employees 2.2 Contractors 2.3 Former Employees 2.3.1 Test 3 Preventing Insider Threats

Overview of Insider Threats

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Sources of Insider Threats

Employees

Employees of an organization are amongst the greatest risk in terms of access to and potential harm with an organization’s sensitive material. Organizations typically assume that they can trust their employees. They believe that their employees are primarily interested in the productivity and successfulness of the organization. Therefore they are not considered to be of any possible danger and are considered last when a leak of sensitive material has occurred.

Contractors

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Former Employees

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Test

Preventing Insider Threats

• Background checks
• Monitoring employee behaviour
• Restrict accounts
• Restrict the scope of remote access
• Enforce the principle of least privlege