However, there is an absence, at least a dearth or paucity, of oral or written comment about the "insider" threat.doi:10.1300/J173v07n01_06MartinNationalHershkowitzNationalJournal of Police Crisis Negotiations
Indicators of Attack (IOAs) demonstrate the intentions behind acyberattackand the techniques used by the threat actor to accomplish their objectives. The specificcyber threatsarming the attack, likemalware,ransomware, oradvanced threats, are of little concern when analyzing IOAs. Instead, only the seq...
Insider Threat Vulnerability Indicators Much like everything else regarding insider threats, uncovering potential vulnerabilities requires looking at both the technical and the human aspects. From a technical standpoint, Proofpoint’s Kalember says that it’s important to take steps to track organizational...
There are significant differences among insider fraud, insider sabotage of IT and theft of IP. Unlike other kinds of insider threat activity, insider fraud is usually a long and ongoing kind of crime. Insider IT sabotage and IP theft tend to be one-time events: explosive in nature and, oft...
Let’s take another example in the form of an insider threat. Let’s say an end user with excessive permissions decides to copy a file that contains sensitive information (perhaps even related to a specific compliance requirement). This is the first time that user has taken that action. Lepi...
When weaponized, a web shell could allow threat actors to modify files and even access the root directory of the targeted webs server. Both internet-facing and non-internet-facing servers (such as resource hosting servers) could fall victim to web shell attacks. Web shell attacks are a conveni...
The availability and use of data has revolutionized advertising in recent decades. Shane McAndrew, chief data strategy officer at agency Mindshare, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the new Data Ethics Compass developed with GroupM and Unileve...
Q2. Why should I whitelist a website, and how does it reduce risks? Whitelisting a website ensures access only to approved, trustworthy websites. By restricting access to irrelevant or untrustworthy websites, you: Protect sensitive information from exposure. ...
In terms of functionality, I don’t think there are too many differences between regular IMAP, POP3, and SMT services and the stuff you can use to communicate on the dark web. Let’s start with the email clients.secMail –full-fledged email service. Pretty simplistic in design: you can ...
Partly due to misleading marketing messages and partly due to wishful thinking, many users believe VDI offers much stronger security than it actually does. Common misconceptions include that hackers can’t launch an attack into a virtual session since there isn’t local storage, and that ending a...