Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Tips To Help You With Insider Threat Prevention Mitigations

By Amanda Hayes


Statistics have shown that most companies are prone to inside attacks. This is because most of them have not developed policies for insider threat prevention. Most attacks that happen in big companies and sometime small ones, they are perpetuated outsider with help from inside persons. Below are tips that will help you identify a person that is likely to cause trouble.

If you want to ensure that you do not employ any person that can be a risk to your safety or the safety of others, you need to conduct your due diligence when you are hiring. Every person you hire should present their background information. This information will help you be aware of their personal history. Therefore, you will be in a position to determine their behaviour judging from their history.

Verbal behaviour can also be used to identify potential inside threats. This is because most inside informant are very vocal. This helps them to gather more information about the organization. They are also known to challenge the management on every issue even if they are not work related. Therefore, you should be very careful with your vocal employees. However, some are just naturally vocal. So, learn to differentiate the two.

Computers are very used to access confidential information about the company. Therefore, it is only in your best interest if you spy on what your employees are accessing using their computers. Therefore, you should consider buying a software that indicates that places accessed by a particular computer. This way, you will be able to identify a person that tries to access confidential information.

There is a behaviour that most inside attackers have and experts call it preparatory behaviors. These are small actions that an employee can do that will help him or her to prepare for the attack. Therefore, you need to be aware of the behavioral patterns of your employees if you want to identify such behaviours. Learning the behavior pattern your employees will come in handy in the long run.

Most computer systems that are password protected, can save the log files and as well the error files in case a person that is not authorized tries to access the system. An inside informant can delete the log files but cannot delete the error files. Therefore, if the log files are deleted, it is then necessary to check the error files. Doing this can show if the system has been interfered with or not.

Inside attackers are known to use markers to make statements. When these markers are not very obvious, it can be hard to identify them thus difficult to detect if there is something being planned. Therefore, it is quite important to identify the less obvious markers since they can help you prevent the inside attacks.

It is important to ensure that your computers are protected using password. Therefore, you should sensitize your employees on the importance to keep their passwords confidential since. You should also should them how to make less obvious passwords that can be easily cracked.




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