Insider risk can come from malicious, negligent, or compromised insiders - those with trusted credentials within your organization. Insiders are authorized to use IT resources, so conventional security tools offer little detection power to distinguish whether authorized actions have malicious intent. If an insider...
According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, insider threats and credential-based attacks comprise the majority of security breaches (over 90%) impacting organizations. Insider attacks involve malicious and negligent activity against an organization that originate from people who have been granted...
80% of breaches originate outside of the organization, while only about 20% begin with trusted insiders, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s possible that because many organizations haven’t yet experienced a breach from an insider threat, they perceive external threats as the...
Insider threats continue to rise, increasing 44% over two years, according to the 2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats report. With growing corporate layoffs and challenging financial conditions, there is a clear risk of disgruntled employees exfiltrating IP and financial data. Some of the most challenging threats to...
While financial fraud has been prevalent for years, businesses still struggle to find it among large pools of data. In this second installment on accounting fraud, a panel of experts discussed the challenges including a lack of resources, skills and tools to identify fraud.
A Cleveland-based healthcare system is notifying a not-yet-disclosed number of individuals about an incident involving unauthorized medical records access by an employee that continued for 15 years. The safety-net organization says the worker has been disciplined.
In this post of his blog "A CISO's View," security director Ian Keller discusses the importance of having mechanisms in place to report potential personal compromise or potential compromise of another person in your company and provides simple steps for making security everyone's responsibility.
An IT security analyst has confessed to trying to blackmail his employer by altering ransom notes sent from a hacker to a board member and changing the cryptocurrency payment address to one he controlled. After his employer detected the unusual activity, U.K. police traced it back to the worker.
Nickolas Sharp, a one-time employee of Ubiquity who pleaded guilty to insider hacking received Wednesday a six year prison sentence. He admitted guilt on Feb. 2 to three criminal counts including transmitting a program to a protected computer that intentionally caused damage.
The definition of insider threat seems to have evolved since the hybrid workforce became the norm. More organizations are now talking about the "compromised insider." Randall Trzeciak of Software Engineering Institute said that in the last three years, insider threats have changed to insider risks.
2022 Threat Landscape has shown a lot of uniqueness compared to previous years. With increase in Nation State Attacks we are seeing the emergence of a new class of e-criminals who have access to new and sophisticated ways of creating revenues.
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The arrest of a low-level U.S. military IT specialist, Jack Teixeira, on suspicion of leaking highly classified documents begs the question of why he had access to them in the first place. The national guard airman has been charged with inappropriately retaining and sharing intelligence.
A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been arrested for leaking highly classified military and intelligence documents. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Jack Teixeira, 21, was taken into custody by FBI agents following the leaking of more than 100 documents.
Spoiler alert: In 2022, audits found open source in 100% of our customer engagements.
Since open source usages are now so pervasive, companies are increasingly concerned about the security of applications built on the foundation of open source components. Consequently, open source security and license compliance...
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