7 ways to eliminate insider threats

What are the steps you should take in order to eliminate insider threats?

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7 ways to eliminate insider threats

 

The conventional primary security objective has always been to protect the perimeter, to stop outsiders from gaining access to your organisation's data and exploiting them. However, statistics have shown that insider threats are not to be disregarded. According to the 2017 U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey1, insider threat continues to be a problem with approximately 50 percent of organisations experiencing at least one malicious insider incident per year.

Solely monitoring the perimeter is no longer enough – you have to start protecting yourself from malicious insiders as well.

Here are 7 ways in which you can eliminate insider threats.

 

1 "2017 U.S. State of Cybercrime" by CSO from IDG, 2017

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