While the problem of insider threat detection has been studied for a long time in both security and data mining communities, the traditional machine learning based detection approaches, which heavily rely on feature engineering, are hard to accurately capture the behavior difference between insiders ...
User behavioral-based insider threat detection (UBITD) is a critical research and development direction in cybersecurity. Despite the abundance of research on ITD methods, there is a notable scarcity of systematic reviews focusing on the latest advancements and the data used to train them. Although...
Insider threat refers to the insider’s behaviors that violate the security policy of the organization (Homoliak et al.2019), and it is currently widely affecting various enterprises and organizations. User behaviors can be described as sequential decision-making processes (Pan et al.2020). Users ...
Despite these statistics, many businesses continue to prioritize perimeter security while neglecting the insider threat, which accounts for an estimated 75% of all attacks2. Insider risks can be classified into various categories, including malicious insiders, negligent insiders, and infiltrators. ...
The reality is that Insider Risk management is much more nuanced than the traditional notion of insider threat prevention. Conventional, policy-based blocking tools like DLP and CASB are just too rigid to handle this nuance. That’s why the Code42 2021 DER found that...
Insiders present a great threatto organizations due to their sanctioned access to systems,information, and infrastructure and the damage that can occurshould they decide to act against the interests of an em-ployer [1]. Recent statistics highlight the severity of the issue:in 2023, InTs were ...
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The scale of the insider threat Although malicious insiders are a growing issue, the bigger problem relates to negligent or careless employees. Humans are the ones that click on links, set passwords, configure IT systems and code software. They are naturally error-prone and can be manipulated by...
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Threat intelligence Anomaly detection Predictive alerts Statistics on Insider Threats 33% of organizations have faced an insider threat incident. (Source: SANS) Two out of three insider incidents happen from contractor or employee negligence. (Source: Ponemon Institute) ...