Proactive Measures to Defeat Insider ThreatAndrew Case
This presentation was delivered at RSA 2016 and discussed measures to defeat insider threat. It focused on real investigations that I have performed and how the victim companies could have prevented the associated harm.
Malicious Insiders examines the role that insider play in sabotage, industrial espionage and fraud. We also examine how taking proactive steps reduces these risks.
A field guide to insider threat helps manage the riskPriyanka Aash
This session will provide a full characterization of insider threat types in a simple field guide with 60 separate threat vectors. Just as a field guide of birds helps narrow down species, our Insider Threat Field Guide identifies the primary ways insiders can harm your organization, informing your strategy and resource allocation for more effective insider risk management.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
I’m probably the last person on earth you’d expect to encourage making insider threat a C-level priority after devoting a decade of my career to external threat and endpoint security, as the for CTO of McAfee and Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin. But sometimes the best advice comes from the least expected places.
Traits exhibited by your best, smartest, and hardest working employee can be the same as those of the malicious (or sometimes even unwitting) insider.
Learn how to:
* Spot an insider threats
* Identify their network activity
*Incorporate best practices to protect your organization from the insider threat
Insider Threats: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?ObserveIT
Insider Threats represent a major security blind-spot where an increasing number of today’s security incidents occur. Highly publicized insider data theft, such as the recent Morgan Stanley breach or AT&T call center incident, highlight the increasing need for better security practices and solutions to reduce the risks posed by insider threats.
Detecting insider threats has become increasingly difficult with the large volume of data generated through normal user activities and lack of visibility into actual user behavior. Most organizations rely on system logs from applications and devices that typically contain hundreds or thousands of discrete events in obscure technical language, making it nearly impossible to determine what a user actually did.
Watch our webinar “Insider Threats: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?” to learn about the most popular tactics to combat insider threats and how to identify indicators of insiders becoming threats. This webinar will share best practices and how to adopt an early warning system to reduce your risk and strengthen your security posture.
How to Build an Insider Threat Program in 30 Minutes ObserveIT
People are the core of your business, but they are also responsible for 90% of security incidents. There is no patch for people. To reduce the likelihood of insider threats, you need the right people, process and technology to make it happen.
Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to own the insider threat program at your company.
After this webinar you’ll know:
Terminology – what are the buzzwords (Insider Threat)
People – who needs to be involved to make it happen (exec team, legal, HR, etc.)
Process – how do you operationalize an insider threat program
Technology— how Insider Threat Management solutions work (ObserveIT)
About the speaker:
Jim Henderson is the CEO of TopSecretProtection.com and InsiderThreatDefense.com. Jim is a renowned Insider Threat Defense Program Training (ITDP) Course Instructor and has 15 years of hands-on experience developing successful Counterespionage-Insider Threat Defense Programs.
Proactive Measures to Defeat Insider ThreatAndrew Case
This presentation was delivered at RSA 2016 and discussed measures to defeat insider threat. It focused on real investigations that I have performed and how the victim companies could have prevented the associated harm.
Malicious Insiders examines the role that insider play in sabotage, industrial espionage and fraud. We also examine how taking proactive steps reduces these risks.
A field guide to insider threat helps manage the riskPriyanka Aash
This session will provide a full characterization of insider threat types in a simple field guide with 60 separate threat vectors. Just as a field guide of birds helps narrow down species, our Insider Threat Field Guide identifies the primary ways insiders can harm your organization, informing your strategy and resource allocation for more effective insider risk management.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
I’m probably the last person on earth you’d expect to encourage making insider threat a C-level priority after devoting a decade of my career to external threat and endpoint security, as the for CTO of McAfee and Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin. But sometimes the best advice comes from the least expected places.
Traits exhibited by your best, smartest, and hardest working employee can be the same as those of the malicious (or sometimes even unwitting) insider.
Learn how to:
* Spot an insider threats
* Identify their network activity
*Incorporate best practices to protect your organization from the insider threat
Insider Threats: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?ObserveIT
Insider Threats represent a major security blind-spot where an increasing number of today’s security incidents occur. Highly publicized insider data theft, such as the recent Morgan Stanley breach or AT&T call center incident, highlight the increasing need for better security practices and solutions to reduce the risks posed by insider threats.
Detecting insider threats has become increasingly difficult with the large volume of data generated through normal user activities and lack of visibility into actual user behavior. Most organizations rely on system logs from applications and devices that typically contain hundreds or thousands of discrete events in obscure technical language, making it nearly impossible to determine what a user actually did.
Watch our webinar “Insider Threats: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?” to learn about the most popular tactics to combat insider threats and how to identify indicators of insiders becoming threats. This webinar will share best practices and how to adopt an early warning system to reduce your risk and strengthen your security posture.
How to Build an Insider Threat Program in 30 Minutes ObserveIT
People are the core of your business, but they are also responsible for 90% of security incidents. There is no patch for people. To reduce the likelihood of insider threats, you need the right people, process and technology to make it happen.
Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to own the insider threat program at your company.
After this webinar you’ll know:
Terminology – what are the buzzwords (Insider Threat)
People – who needs to be involved to make it happen (exec team, legal, HR, etc.)
Process – how do you operationalize an insider threat program
Technology— how Insider Threat Management solutions work (ObserveIT)
About the speaker:
Jim Henderson is the CEO of TopSecretProtection.com and InsiderThreatDefense.com. Jim is a renowned Insider Threat Defense Program Training (ITDP) Course Instructor and has 15 years of hands-on experience developing successful Counterespionage-Insider Threat Defense Programs.
Insider threats come in a variety of forms and may be malicious or simply the result of negligence. Insider attacks can cause more damage than outsider threats, so it is important that organizations understand how to protect against and remedy insider threats. Learn more about insider threats and GTRI's Insider Threat Security Solution in this presentation. (Source: GTRI)
This presentation includes information about Cisco Stealthwatch, which goes beyond conventional threat detection and harnesses the power of NetFlow. With it, you get advanced network visibility, analytics, and protection. You see everything happening across your network and data center. And you can uncover attacks that bypass the perimeter and infiltrate your internal environment. (Source: Cisco)
Insider Threat Summit - The Future of Insider Threat DetectionObserveIT
The use of insider threat management software has grown dramatically over the last two years, but we’ve only started to scratch the surface of innovation. This presentation will not only show you where insider threat technology is today, but also where's it's headed over the next 18 months. See what’s capable with leading insider threat software and how it can be applicable for your organization.
Ponemon Report: Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we th...Lancope, Inc.
Learn about the key mistakes organizations are making when it comes to incident response, presented by the chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, Dr. Larry Ponemon, and Lancope’s director of security research, Tom Cross. Then learn about how the right mix of people, processes and technology can dramatically improve your incident response efforts and elevate the importance of the CSIRT within your organization.
One of the most critical aspects of safeguarding the IT assets of any corporation is dealing with the Insider's Threat. With so many diversified IT components, it is a real challenge to design an effective IT security strategy. It is critical to recognize this particular threat and take countermeasures to protect your assets. So, this webinar covers: Insider threats, how to mitigate insider threats, how to design an effective IT security strategy, and how to protect your assets.
Main points covered:
• Insider threats
• How to design an effective IT security strategy
• How to protect your assets
Presenter:
The webinar was hosted by Demetris Kachulis. Mr. Kachulis is an expert in the field of Information Security. With over 20 years of Wall Street consulting experience, he has worked with many Fortune 500 companies. He is currently the director of Eldion Consulting, a company offering Security, Trainings and Business solutions.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hXe5HHjnBeU
Presentation about insider threat ways of working, their impact on organizations and how technical and human indicators can be monitored to detect and neutralize insider threats. Professionals working in security operations should monitor these indicators to create profile of possible insider going rogue.
Alien vault sans cyber threat intelligenceAlienVault
Over the last several years, we have seen that attackers are innovating much faster than defenders are. This trend is steering many companies to look towards cyber threat intelligence (CTI) to help them navigate today’s threatening landscape. SANS conducted a survey this year to explore who is using cyber threat intelligence and how they are using it. The survey collected responses from 326 IT professionals working in a variety of industries, in all sizes and from many different regions. 69% of the respondents reported implementing CTI to some extent, with only 16% planning not to pursue CTI in their environments. Which side of this percentage do you fall into? The infographic below provides some of the key questions to ask when getting started with threat intelligence, along with data from the SANS survey to show you how others are using threat intelligence.
Dr. Shawn P. Murray was invited back to the National Security Institute in April 2013 to speak on a familiar topic, but with a new focus. The accidental insider threat is becoming more of a concern for companies today. Dr. Murray is a Cyber Security Professional and has worked in various Information Assurance and Information Technology Security positions for many years.
This document is a guide for the detailed development, selection implementation of information system and program level procedures to indicate the execution, effectiveness, and impact of security controls along with and other security associated activities.
Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) for Cybersecurity CollaborationPriyanka Aash
This session will present a real case study of methodology and advanced cybersecurity tools used along with important tips and lessons learned on implementing an ISOC project at the second largest city of the nation. Topics include the critical success factors, advanced tools and technologies for ISOC, Situational Awareness, Threat Intelligence Sharing and cybersecurity collaboration.
(Source: RSA USA 2016-San Francisco)
External Attacks Against Privileged Accounts - How Federal Agencies Can Build...BeyondTrust
This presentation examines the types of attacks that try to exploit privileged credentials, particular in a governmental environment, and explores defensive strategies to bring privileges, and the associated threats, under complete visibility and control.
While the current threat landscape is full of sophisticated and well-resourced adversaries, one of the most dangerous is the insider because they already have access to the sensitive data on your network.
According to a report from Forrester Research, nearly half of technology decision makers who experienced a data breach in the year studied reported that an internal incident was the source of their compromise.
Since firewalls and perimeter defenses are largely incapable of addressing insider threats, organizations must turn to internal network monitoring and analytics to identify threats based on their behavior.
Join us for a free webinar on the Five Signs You Have an Insider Threat to learn what to look for to protect your organization from this challenging attack type. The webinar will cover topics including:
- Insider threat prevalence
- Major signs of insider threat activity
- How to detect these signs
- How to identify an insider threat before they impact your organization
EC-Council, a globally recognized cybersecurity credentialing body, offers the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified Penetration Testing Professional (CPENT) certifications to help you acquire the skills you need to be a part of Red and Blue Teams. CEH is the most desired cybersecurity training program, upping your ethical hacking skills to the next level. CPENT takes off from where CEH leaves off, giving you a real-world, hands-on penetration testing experience.
Tutorial for ACM Multimedia 2016, given together with Gerald Friedland, with contributions from Julia Bernd and Yiannis Kompatsiaris. The presentation covered an introduction to the problem of disclosing personal information through multimedia sharing, the associated security risks, methods for conducting multimodla inferences and technical frameworks that could help alleviate such risks.
Insider threats come in a variety of forms and may be malicious or simply the result of negligence. Insider attacks can cause more damage than outsider threats, so it is important that organizations understand how to protect against and remedy insider threats. Learn more about insider threats and GTRI's Insider Threat Security Solution in this presentation. (Source: GTRI)
This presentation includes information about Cisco Stealthwatch, which goes beyond conventional threat detection and harnesses the power of NetFlow. With it, you get advanced network visibility, analytics, and protection. You see everything happening across your network and data center. And you can uncover attacks that bypass the perimeter and infiltrate your internal environment. (Source: Cisco)
Insider Threat Summit - The Future of Insider Threat DetectionObserveIT
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Ponemon Report: Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we th...Lancope, Inc.
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One of the most critical aspects of safeguarding the IT assets of any corporation is dealing with the Insider's Threat. With so many diversified IT components, it is a real challenge to design an effective IT security strategy. It is critical to recognize this particular threat and take countermeasures to protect your assets. So, this webinar covers: Insider threats, how to mitigate insider threats, how to design an effective IT security strategy, and how to protect your assets.
Main points covered:
• Insider threats
• How to design an effective IT security strategy
• How to protect your assets
Presenter:
The webinar was hosted by Demetris Kachulis. Mr. Kachulis is an expert in the field of Information Security. With over 20 years of Wall Street consulting experience, he has worked with many Fortune 500 companies. He is currently the director of Eldion Consulting, a company offering Security, Trainings and Business solutions.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hXe5HHjnBeU
Presentation about insider threat ways of working, their impact on organizations and how technical and human indicators can be monitored to detect and neutralize insider threats. Professionals working in security operations should monitor these indicators to create profile of possible insider going rogue.
Alien vault sans cyber threat intelligenceAlienVault
Over the last several years, we have seen that attackers are innovating much faster than defenders are. This trend is steering many companies to look towards cyber threat intelligence (CTI) to help them navigate today’s threatening landscape. SANS conducted a survey this year to explore who is using cyber threat intelligence and how they are using it. The survey collected responses from 326 IT professionals working in a variety of industries, in all sizes and from many different regions. 69% of the respondents reported implementing CTI to some extent, with only 16% planning not to pursue CTI in their environments. Which side of this percentage do you fall into? The infographic below provides some of the key questions to ask when getting started with threat intelligence, along with data from the SANS survey to show you how others are using threat intelligence.
Dr. Shawn P. Murray was invited back to the National Security Institute in April 2013 to speak on a familiar topic, but with a new focus. The accidental insider threat is becoming more of a concern for companies today. Dr. Murray is a Cyber Security Professional and has worked in various Information Assurance and Information Technology Security positions for many years.
This document is a guide for the detailed development, selection implementation of information system and program level procedures to indicate the execution, effectiveness, and impact of security controls along with and other security associated activities.
Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) for Cybersecurity CollaborationPriyanka Aash
This session will present a real case study of methodology and advanced cybersecurity tools used along with important tips and lessons learned on implementing an ISOC project at the second largest city of the nation. Topics include the critical success factors, advanced tools and technologies for ISOC, Situational Awareness, Threat Intelligence Sharing and cybersecurity collaboration.
(Source: RSA USA 2016-San Francisco)
External Attacks Against Privileged Accounts - How Federal Agencies Can Build...BeyondTrust
This presentation examines the types of attacks that try to exploit privileged credentials, particular in a governmental environment, and explores defensive strategies to bring privileges, and the associated threats, under complete visibility and control.
While the current threat landscape is full of sophisticated and well-resourced adversaries, one of the most dangerous is the insider because they already have access to the sensitive data on your network.
According to a report from Forrester Research, nearly half of technology decision makers who experienced a data breach in the year studied reported that an internal incident was the source of their compromise.
Since firewalls and perimeter defenses are largely incapable of addressing insider threats, organizations must turn to internal network monitoring and analytics to identify threats based on their behavior.
Join us for a free webinar on the Five Signs You Have an Insider Threat to learn what to look for to protect your organization from this challenging attack type. The webinar will cover topics including:
- Insider threat prevalence
- Major signs of insider threat activity
- How to detect these signs
- How to identify an insider threat before they impact your organization
EC-Council, a globally recognized cybersecurity credentialing body, offers the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified Penetration Testing Professional (CPENT) certifications to help you acquire the skills you need to be a part of Red and Blue Teams. CEH is the most desired cybersecurity training program, upping your ethical hacking skills to the next level. CPENT takes off from where CEH leaves off, giving you a real-world, hands-on penetration testing experience.
Tutorial for ACM Multimedia 2016, given together with Gerald Friedland, with contributions from Julia Bernd and Yiannis Kompatsiaris. The presentation covered an introduction to the problem of disclosing personal information through multimedia sharing, the associated security risks, methods for conducting multimodla inferences and technical frameworks that could help alleviate such risks.
Insider threat: tackling cyber security risk from inside your organisation. This event provided an overview of the current state of understanding of who the “insiders” are; how they operate; what motivates them and what threats they pose to information systems.
With every Security & Privacy Breach survey pointing towards insiders as a potential threat and incidents leading to data loss and violation of the corporate information security policy, it is imperative that we answer the following questions:
Who are these insiders?
What activities do they carry out to breach security?
Why an insider seeks to cause harm?
How do we mitigate this threat?
An Improved Method for Preventing Data Leakage in an OrganizationIJERA Editor
Data is one of the most important assets an organisation has since it denes each organisations unique- ness.It
includes data on members and prospects, their inter- ests and purchases, your events, speakers, your content,
social media, press, your staff, budget, strategic plan, and much more. As organizations open their doors to
employees, part- ners, customers and suppliers to provide deeper access to sensitive information, the risk
sassociated with business increase. Now, more than ever, within creasing threats of cyber terrorism, cor- porate
governance issues, fraud, and identity theft, the need for securing corporate information has become paramount.
Informa- tion theft is not just about external hackers and unauthorized external users stealing your data, it is also
about managing internal employees and even contractors who may be working within your organization for
short periods of time. Adding to the challenge of securing information is the increasing push for corporate
governance and adherence to legislative or regulatory requirements. Failure to comply and provide privacy,
audit and internal controls could result in penalties ranging from large nes to jail terms. Non-compliance can
result in not only potential implications for executives, but also possible threats to the viability of a corporation.
Insiders too represent a sign cant risk to data security. The task of detecting malicious insiders is very
challenging as the methods of deception become more and more sophisticated. There are various solutions
present to avoid data leakage. Data leakage detection, prevention (DLPM) and monitoring solutions became an
inherent component of the organizations security suite.DLP solutions monitors sensitive data when at rest, in
motion, or in use and enforce the organizational data protection policy.These solutions focus mainly on the data
and its sensitivity level, and on preventing it from reaching an unauthorized person. They ignore the fact that an
insider is gradually exposed to more and more sensitive data,to which she is authorized to access. Such data
may cause great damage to the organization when leaked or misused. Data can be leaked via emails, instant
messaging, le transfer etc. This research is focusing on email data leakage monitoring, detection and
prevention. It is proposed to be carried out in two phases: leakage detection through mining and prevention
through encryption of email content.
Insider Threats_ Top Four Ways to Protect Enterprises - ITSecurityWire.pdfEnterprise Insider
According to the 2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats Global Report, insider threat occurrences surged 44% in the last two years, with expenses per incident climbing by more than a third to $15.38 million.
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In the modern-day climate, more and more industries have had to increase IT security
expenses to provide a trusted system of security to all client/company PII from unauthorized users. The massive spike in IT security spending was brought on by the recent cyber breach on Equifax, in which millions of clients’ PII was accessed and distributed by an unauthorized user infiltrating the system. Like the Equifax attack, so many of these attacks require user-interaction to be activated or spread, so organizations must be on the forefront of understanding the internal threats of their own employees can impose.
An Overview of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) and Security...IOSR Journals
Technical solutions, introduced by policies and implantations are essential requirements of an
information security program. Advanced technologies such as intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS)
and analysis tools have become prominent in the network environment while they involve with organizations to
enhance the security of their information assets. Scanning and analyzing tools to pinpoint vulnerabilities, holes
in security components, unsecured aspects of the network and deploying of IDPS technology are highlighted.
SANS 2013 Report: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey FireEye, Inc.
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INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT - Critique the employment of ethical hacking ...Hansa Edirisinghe
This report discuses the employment of ethical hacking through a disciplined, systematic analysis as a way of reviewing and strengthening the security of information systems. The preliminary objective of this study is therefore to understand the concept of Ethical Hacking. - By Hansa Edirisinghe
Cybersecurity risk assessments help organizations identify.pdfTheWalkerGroup1
Cybersecurity risk assessments help organizations identify, manage and mitigate all forms of cyber risk. It is a critical component of any comprehensive data protection strategy.
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CDU International College
MQP 008
Report on Security Issues in the Fugle Company
Marufa Binte Muztaba
Date: 22th April 2020
Student ID:S33821
Length: 1500 words (+/-100)
Introduction
When we consider every modern business, we find that none lacks security issues. This means that we need to look into how to come up with secure systems. Information security stands for prevention or the practice of preventing access of data by unauthorized user. The information does not need to be electrical for it to be secured, even physical information is put into consideration. The purpose of writing this paper is to talk about Fugle Company by describing its information system, outlining the main risks that the system might be exposed to and the ethical issues that need to be considered in order to maintain the security of information in Fugle, (Trend Micro, 2015). For this company to succeed, information security has to be up tight. This technological company has developed an application that you can pay using your fingerprint. A lot of attention has been drawn to it which has risen questions of how secure the application is, (Dooley, 2017). With the scheduled time for launching the application, the company experiences a lot of pressure because they do not want to launch it before considering all the security issues with their budget, and at the same time they do not have a lot of time. The security issues addressed here apply to the HRM, product development, accounting, and marketing information systems.
Information Systems and their Assets
There are four main key information systems in Fugle. When dealing with an information system, we basically mean the software that a company used to analyze and organize its data. It is used to convert raw data into information that can be understood and be used for effective decision making. There are key assets that each one of the four keys have been assigned to protect. We can define an asset as something that is useful for the company that brings profit to it. It is very important to know how to handle threats that are imposed to these assets because they can have a major impact on the future of the company and its viability. In fugle, the main responsibility of the market information system is to make sure that information in the company concerning marketing is not breached. The company’s major assets are its customer Intel and information concerning the asset. This is seen by when Dave is called and is told that there was an attempt of people hacking the data concerning the clients of the company, ( Lowry, Dinev, and Willison, 2017). This would mean that there is a confidentiality breach and the clients would not trust the company again. Also when journalists come to take a look at the product and they are given a controlled presentation it is because the product is still considered vulnerable to attacks. Information about the .
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
2. According to the second annual SANS survey on the security of the
financial services sector, the number one threat companies are concerned
about doesn’t relate to nation-states, organised criminal gangs or ‘APTs’.
Rather the main worry revolves around insider threats –
but what exactly are insider threat indicators and what can be
done around insider threat detection and response?
Insiders, Moles
& Compromises
3. A NEW OLD PROBLEM
The discussion around insider threat detection has increased recently in the financial
sector and in other areas as well. Part of this may be attributed to the spotlight Edward
Snowden shone on how much damage an employee can cause to an organisation -
even one as secretive as the NSA.
But insider threats are nothing new. During the height of the cold war, many spies
defected to opposing sides, taking with them national secrets and expertise right from
under the noses of their spy bosses. As a result, many counter techniques were developed
and deployed to keep an eye on insiders with valuable knowledge or skills to prevent
would-be defectors to make an escape or pass over information.
4. WHAT ARE INDICATORS OF
AN INSIDER THREAT?
When it comes to trading state secrets, insider threat detection is relatively
straightforward. But in today’s environments, the definitions start to blur somewhat.
We can define an insider as an individual with legitimate access within the
corporate perimeter - be it physical or virtual. This would include permanent
& temporary employees, 3rd party contractors as well as 3rd party support
companies and outsourced service providers.
Typically, a threat is defined as something or someone exploiting a vulnerability
in a target. In the case of insider threat detection, this can be reframed as someone
abusing their trust.
Therefore, we can summarize the insider threat as someone who misuses
the legitimate access granted to them for the purposes of self-interest that could
potentially harm the organization.
5. A QUESTION OF INTENT
Unfortunately, whenever humans are involved,
no case is so straightforward
...particularly where the malicious behaviour emanates from within the circle of trust.
Differentiating malicious insider behaviour from user error, or even legitimate
activity can be a challenge.
For example, a user is seen to download a number of files onto their personal device.
It could be they are about to tender their resignation and want to take some information
with them to their next job. Alternatively, it could be a hard-working and loyal employee
wanting to catch up with some work over the weekend. Or worse still, it could be that
the users account has been compromised and is being under the control of an attacker
masquerading as an insider.
6. Types of
Insiders
With this in mind, we can break down
insiders into three broad categories:
• Non-malicious insider
• Malicious insider
• Compromised insider
7. Non-malicious Insider
Non-malicious insiders are those users that
perform actions, which have no ill intent, but can
nevertheless cause harm to an organisation.
Such actions could include user error, such as
running commands against a production environment
believing it is development or losing a company
laptop. It can also cover users who are trying to fulfill
their job by using non-approved tools. Shadow
IT users fall into this scope, where users procure
or use a cloud application such as a file-sharing
app to increase productivity, but inadvertently
expose the company to threats.
8. Malicious Insider
Malicious users are aware of their actions and the negative
implications on the organisation, yet still pursue that course of action.
This grouping includes a broad set of users.
Users which are leaving the organisation may harvest information
they believe would be of use to them in future jobs. While they are often
aware their actions are in violation of company policy, actions are
often justified with a sense of entitlement.
This category also includes users that are disgruntled for one reason
or another and seek to vent by causing as much disruption or damage to
company assets. Activists or employees who feel whistleblower processes
are insufficient will also react in a similar manner.
At the highest level of this category, employees are engaged in corporate
espionage. Providing intellectual property or other sensitive information to
competitors, criminal gangs or nation-state sponsored actors.
9. Compromised Insider
The final oft-overlooked category is that of
compromised insiders. Typically this is where
credentials have been guessed or captured
as part of a targeted attack. Although the actor
behind the account is not an employee -
the use of legitimate credentials would show
up as if it were an employee.
10. These factors combined can be represented in the following
matrix where intent is measured against harm.
The Insider Risk Matrix
INTENT
Malicious
Non-Malicious
Negligible SevereHARM
11. For example, a company may deem that the risk of shadow IT, i.e. users procuring their
own SaaS applications within which they could upload sensitive company data that could
be accessed by non-authorised persons, or the SaaS provider could be breached.
In this case, the intent would be non-malicious in that the user was trying to perform
their job, yet the consequences could be significant.
INTENT
Malicious
Non-Malicious
Shadow IT
Negligible SevereHARM
12. Other insider threat indicators could be plotted in the same way to visualise which
threats are more severe overall by how far they are positioned up and to the right.
From a risk perspective, this alone won’t tell the full story as we are still missing
the likelihood. The likelihood can be represented by the size of the bubble on the
chart as depicted.
INTENT
Malicious
Non-Malicious
Negligible SevereHARM
Shadow IT
Espionage
Disgruntled Employee
User Error
(Account lockout)
User Error
(Clicking on Spearphising)
13. The size of the bubbles (likelihood) help visualise that whereas espionage
can have the biggest impact and is undertaken with the most malicious intent,
the likelihood of it occurring is potentially less than that of a disgruntled
employee or even shadow IT proliferating within the enterprise.
User error encompasses many activities – all of which are non-malicious in
nature, however the harm caused could range from negligible such as an account
lockout through to severe by allowing an attacker a foothold inside the network
by clicking on a phishing link.
Shadow IT
Espionage
14. DETECTING INSIDER THREATS
Perimeter and preventative controls are largely ineffective in insider threat detection
and response, as by their very nature these are threats from within.
As a result, different techniques should be deployed to address each type of specific
threat based upon the insider threat indicators. Like many security controls, the concept
of defense in depth can be applied whereby a collection of procedural, user and technical
controls can be applied to detect suspicious insider activity, as depicted in the following
controls pyramid.
Policies
Exec Support
User Awareness & Education
Whistleblowing & Reporting Channels
Outbound Traffic Analysis Login patterns
Threat Intelligence Eastwest Traffic Analysis
Heuristics Algorithms Endpoint Activily Analytics
Access Deviation from Past or Peer Group File Access Patterns
Sentiment Analysis Social Media Tracking Machine Learning
Procedural & User Controls
Technical Controls
Emerging Techniques
15. PROCEDURAL & USER CONTROLS
Procedural and user controls are important to get management support and ensure
policies implemented are acceptable from a legal as well as cultural perspective.
Privacy is a discussion topic that comes up frequently and having transparency in how
a company uses data it collects about its employees is required in retaining trust. It also
provides a framework whereby aggrieved employees can escalate issues without the need
to resorting to conducting harmful acts against the company.
Finally, it also raises awareness so that employees can potentially detect and alert
suspicious activity.
16. TECHNICAL CONTROLS
The technical controls are an area which has seen a lot of development in recent years.
This primarily focuses on analytical techniques to identify suspicious user activity. Primarily
these will baseline user activity against its own past actions in addition to base lining against
peer activity to identify outliers. The baselines can be set against logins (times / locations),
file or system access, network traffic or even endpoint activity amongst others.
Threat intelligence can also be a valuable asset in understanding whether outbound traffic
is communicating with known command and control or other suspicious transfers.
In addition to these techniques, traditional technologies can also be utilized as insider threat
detection tools that help identify suspicious activity that may point towards a rogue insider.
Endpoint or network DLP (data loss prevention) tools can monitor where excessive files are being
exfiltrated out of the organisation. SIEM rules can also be tuned to alert on certain events that
are indicative of malicious insider activity.
17. EMERGING TECHNIQUES
Alongside threat intelligence, a number of newer approaches are being
developed which can directly or indirectly assist in finding insiders. Social media
channels play an ever-increasing role in both legitimate and not so legitimate
communications. Having the ability to monitor these channels, particularly where
enhanced by specific threat intelligence, greatly increases chances of isolating
activity on these typically out-of-band channels.
Sentiment analysis is another insider threat detection tool in the arsenal that is
garnering more interest. It seeks to identify where an employee may be disgruntled
or activist-tendencies which are contrary to the business values.
18. RESPONSE
One of the challenges with any form of detection technology is having adequate skills
and resources to investigate and respond to alerts. For this reason, some technologies and
businesses are moving to more of a reporting framework for insider threat detection as
opposed to raising alerts.
With reports, a broader picture is painted around a user and their activity, thus allowing
investigations to be conducted based on richer context versus merely a one-off alert.
Such mechanisms could include a risk-score against each user based on a number of factors
such as grade, access to information, length of service, recent appraisal and so on.
Whichever method is adopted, it will still require manual effort to investigate
and validate any suspicions of wrongful behaviour.
19. BATTLE OF ATTRITION
While many new techniques have been developed and are continually being developed for
insider threat detection and response – dealing with humans, particularly trusted employees,
requires a different strategy and approach than dealing with malware.
Whereas any suspicious email or file can be relatively easily quarantined or blocked until proven
otherwise – employees cannot be suspended or fired based on a couple of indicators or mere
suspicion. Also, bear in mind that a large portion of suspicious activity can take place outside the
realm of IT systems. This means that companies will need to work with HR and legal departments
in advance to determine the best strategy to investigate suspicious activity and how to interact
with suspected employees.
It becomes a matter of balancing risk – a company may be able to recover a lot easier
from an ex-employee taking a copy of the customer database than from an unfair dismissal
lawsuit. In the financial sector especially, the stakes are high all around.
20. AlienVault Unified Security Management
(USM) delivers essential Insider Threat
Detection and Management capabilities:
Behavioral Monitoring
• Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)
• Network flow analysis
• Network protocol analysis & packet capture
Privilege Escalation Detection
• Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
• File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
• Detect unauthorized user access attempts
Event Correlation
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Detect communications with malicious hosts
• Centralized dashboard that prioritizes threats the way you want to see them
21. Next Steps: Play, share, enjoy!
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