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الجمعة، 13 أكتوبر 2017

Facts About Insider Threat Prevention

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.

Inside attackers are known to be mostly very verbal even when articulating small issues. However, not all verbal employees can be a risk to your company. Thus, it is important that you draw fine line between the employees that are naturally verbal and those that can be of great danger to your company. However, it does not hurt to monitor all the verbal employees.

If your company is technological related and most of your workers have computers. It would be easier to identify an inside informant by spying on your workers. That is, you need to consciously monitor the information that your workers are trying to retrieve about the company especially the ones that are not allowed to access such information. Therefore, find softwares that can help you track how your employees are using the computers.

Inside attackers most of the times are known to have preparatory behaviours. This involves collecting information about security measures and generally, the entire layout of the company. This information that they obtain helps them to prepare their attack. Sometimes it is hard to identify the preparatory behaviours because they are done systematically. However, if you are keen enough.

Computers are known to save their log files and as well as the error files. Log file can be easily deleted but the error files cannot. Therefore, an inside intruder can learn how to delete the log files. Thus, when checking if someone has accessed the system, you need to check the error files in case the log files are deleted and the system is password protected.

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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