Insider threat detection and testing
Who can you trust? The answer is no one. Your employees can be your biggest security liability – whether they intend to be or not. Insider threat detection and testing helps shield your organization from the danger of internal sabotage.
What is an insider threat?
Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse. If you want to develop a comprehensive security strategy, you have to cover all angles. This means starting from the inside. Whether their intentions are malicious or not, employees can be your worst enemy.
An insider threat can appear in many forms; careless colleagues, susceptible vendors, disgruntled ex-employees, and the list goes on. It’s a tough economy, even the people you think are trustworthy may be enticed by external influences.
Who has the potential to misuse your network? Does anyone have access to systems that should have been removed years ago? These people are increasingly targeted by malicious actors who offer attractive incentives in exchange for extensive company secrets.
Our approach to insider threat detection
As people move up in the chain of command, it’s common for their access levels to grow alongside them. But the higher you go, the further you can fall and the bigger the impact.
Even your most trusted staff has the potential to turn on you and disrupt business operations. Cybercriminals are acutely aware of this – and they will stop at nothing to gain access.
We will explore each role and every angle
Detect the potential impact of insider threats to protect your organization from financial and reputational damage. Let our ethical hackers stand in the shoes of a “trusted” position and discover your vulnerabilities.
We will explore each role and every angle until we expose the most hidden flaws in your security system. We’ll help you devise an insider threat detection and prevention plan, fix existing issues before a real attack takes place, and keep prying eyes away from confidential information.
“We are really happy with CovertSwarm as our external RED team.”
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Constant cyber attack via subscription
For a simple monthly fee, our dedicated team of ethical hackers will constantly attack the full scope of your brand using digital, physical and social methods.
And when we find a way to breach your organization, we’ll raise the alarm before a real threat succeeds.
STOP TESTING. START ATTACKING.
Just as your security defenses must evolve to keep pace with organizational change, so must your approach to cyber attack.
With most security breaches occurring many days prior to detection, effective simulated assaults must be constant. It’s the only way to counteract an APT and avoid zero-day exploits.
NO PATCH FOR HUMAN ERROR
It’s not just your systems and applications which are susceptible to threat. Your people are too. Staff members are one of the most common breach points for successful cyber attacks.
That’s why, thinking beyond the digital, we’ll seek to exploit previous unexplored weaknesses in your physical and social environments too.
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Stay one step ahead and detect threats before the damage is done.
Don’t wait for a rogue employee data breach to happen before taking insider threat consulting seriously. Stay one step ahead. Detect and eliminate threats before the damage is done.
Benefits of our insider threat detection solutions
Detect, mitigate, and eliminate all potential insider threats.
Our offensive insider threat detection strategy is as comprehensive as it gets. Protect your business from the inside out. Detect, mitigate, and eliminate your risks before they have the chance to cause irreparable damage.
Build a culture that prioritizes security and inspires confidence.
Ever heard of the phrase the bad apple doesn’t fall far from the tree? One rogue employee can put your entire organization at risk. Devise an insider threat response and build a positive culture that prioritizes security and inspires confidence in your clients. It’s a non-negotiable.
Enhance your security awareness training and build a human firewall.
When it comes to security, technology can only go so far. Teach employees to follow best practices, report suspicious activity, and prevent insider threat attacks. Enhance security awareness training to build a human firewall that can keep up with constantly evolving threats.
Features of our insider threat solutions
The cost of an insider threat – protect your assets.
What’s going to cost you more? Outsourcing your insider threat cyber security services to a third party, or learning of a breach of data protection act by employees? Protect your sensitive data and your reputation with insider threat management.
Don’t miss a thing – monitor activity from all angles.
Looks can be deceiving so it’s best to keep both eyes open. Just like a Trojan horse, an insider threat can slip past unnoticed. Our insider threat monitoring solutions ensure you don’t miss a thing as we explore real-time risks from every angle.
Hunt and eradicate – we never stop searching for the next threat.
Hunt and eradicate; our quest for unidentified threats is proactive and continuous. We’ll eliminate risks and neutralize malicious insiders before they get the chance to cause any harm to your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is insider threat testing?
It’s a critical component of any offensive cybersecurity strategy. Insider threat detection and testing monitors user behavior and analyses data from various sources to flag suspicious activity and reduce the likelihood of attacks like data breaches caused by employees.
What are the different types of insider threats?
Insider threat actors come in many forms – not all of them malicious. Overall, there are three types of insider threats in cybersecurity that you should be aware of.
- Negligent insiders: employees that are not aware of the threat they are causing you. Good intentions, poor security practices. They may open a phishing email or accidentally share confidential information.
- Compromised: insiders whose credentials have been acquired by an external attacker. Stolen information is used to gain access to your system and secure data without detection.
- Malicious: actors within your organization who are consciously seeking to cause harm and steal data. They already have access to your system and they intend to abuse it.
Are there any early insider threat indicators to be aware of?
Notice an employee acting differently? Watch out for general sentiments of dissatisfaction with their jobs, financial troubles, or a sudden interest in company data that’s outside their responsibility.
Anything unusual about your access patterns? Someone logging in outside of normal hours, large amounts of data copied into an external device or perhaps failed login attempts being registered.
Once you learn to identify the red flag in your network activity, you’ll be able to mitigate cyber security insider threats before they get out of hand. Analyze insider threat indicators and determine whether it’s a case of malicious activity or compromised credentials.
How can I prevent insider threats?
The first step towards insider threat prevention is insider threat awareness. You need to know what you’re looking out for, and which access control protocols and procedures need tightening up? Address the insider threat breaches from all angles.
Establish access controls, monitor user activity, and educate your employees on security protocols. Don’t stop there. Ask for background checks, enforce security clearances, and conduct periodic re-evaluations. If you want to take security seriously and outpace your genuine attackers, you need to be relentless.
Who can be an insider threat?
Anyone with access to your systems or the ability to get hold of your sensitive data is a potential cyber insider threat. Employees, contractors, vendors, partners, or even former employees that retain access can all pose a risk and may trigger an insider threat data breach.
Why is it important to identify potential insider threats?
The impact of insider threats is costly both to your reputation and your finances. Legal liabilities, regulator fines, and loss of business – all of these are real-life consequences that insider threat protection aims to avoid. Once sensitive information is out there in the open, it’s impossible to retrieve. Protect your bottom line and your clients by investing in insider threat detection solutions.
Are insider threats always involved in malicious intentions?
When you think of insider threats in cyber security, your mind wanders to the image of a disgruntled employee data breach. Although this is a plausible element of cyber security insider threat detection, more often than not, a security data breach by an employee is completely accidental.
One wrong click of a button and your company’s most sensitive data could fall into the wrong hands. Monitor insider threat security and put a stop to careless yet expensive mistakes.
What motivates an insider threat?
Money, revenge, ideology, or even professional gain; there are plenty of reasons that could incite a rogue employee cyber security threat. One of your members of staff may even be coerced or influenced by an external actor. Some insider threats can even be unintentional due to a lack of awareness regarding security protocols. Therefore, investing in insider threat protection services is essential.
Who do insider threats target?
Insider threat actors can target a wide range of people, including clients, vendors, or even their own organization. The end goal of these actors could be to access trade secrets, financial information, intellectual property, or other sensitive assets. These actions could be severely detrimental to the livelihood of your company so cyber security insider threat detection is a must.
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