However, the insider threat is all too real. According to multiple reports, insider threats are behind many of the security issues that we face today. “Cybersecurity Insiders Insider Threat Report”, for example, found that 68% of organisations believe that insider threats are increasing in ...
The risk of an insider threat should not be overlooked. Research for the latest Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon found that 74% of data breaches involve a human element. That finding underscores the need for businesses—and not just their security teams—to consider what solutions th...
An insider threat can happen when someone close to an organisation with authorised access misuses that access to negatively impact the organisation’s critical information or systems. This person does not necessarily need to be an employee—third-party vendors, contractors, and partners could also po...
Misuse-based detection only models threat behaviors and detects threats by measuring the similarity between test data and threat behavior patterns. In reality, to our knowledge, there are currently few genuine misuse-based detection schemes in the field of insider threat detection due to the dearth ...
Training– developing and maintaining a robust training curriculum and security awareness program Policy– drafting, enforcing, and regularly updating insider threat policies adhered to by employees and contractors These pillars can be the foundation of proactive prevention, detection, and response program ...
But it’s not always strangers who pose the greatest threat; internal threats can be just as harmful. According to Verizon’s recent Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 30% of cyberattacks globally, are carried ...
Indicators: Increasing Insider Threat Awareness Keep an eye out for the following suspicious occurrences, and you’ll have a far better chance of thwarting a malicious insider threat, even if it’s disguised as an unintentional act. 1. Unusual logins At many companies there is a distinct pattern...
Existing works on insider threat detection fail to make full use of the time information, which leads to their poor detection performance. In this paper, we propose a novel behavioral feature extraction scheme: we implicitly encode absolute time information in the behavioral feature sequences and ...
2021 IBM Security X-Force Insider Threat Report IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Special Intelligence Report Q2 2021 Table of contents Introduction Key research findings Section 1 How insider threat attacks are discovered Section 2 Lack of evidence and unknowns in X-Force research Section 3 ...
Insider threats pose a significant challenge in cybersecurity, demanding advanced detection methods for effective risk mitigation. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of data imbalance addressing techniques for CNN-based insider threat detection