Threat is one of the crucial risks for any organization because it causes most distractions. It can take advantage of stealing data to privileged access, and the major one is they know about the company's security program in detail.
To overcome these issues many companies depend on the employee monitoring tools such as EmpMonitor. That helps to solve security problems.
In this article, I will share some short knowledge about what these threats and its types are, and how to protect your business from these threats.
What Is An Insider Threat?
Insider Threat security risk that arises from within the targeted company. It mainly involves a business associate, a former or current employee. Who has the permissions to access the privileged account or sensitive information inside the organizations' network, and who tries to misuse access.
It can be a vendor or an employee, ex-employee, or anyone that has the permissions to access your organizations' network.
It is not easy to deal with the threat since the employees you trust more with your systems and data are mainly responsible for this.
Now, let's move ahead and know about the types of threat that occurs mostly.
Types Of Insider Risk:
It is of three types: Careless users, Malicious users, and Compromised users.
Careless Users
Vendors or careless employees become easily targeted via the attackers. They leave their system or computer unlocked several times that makes attackers gain access smoothly.
Granting permissions to the regular employee to do It work(using software system accounts) is the best example of careless insider risk.
Malicious Insider
Malicious attackers can be of any form or shape. They have authorized access to the system and can extract data smoothly. They keep their track safe that can make it more difficult for detection.
It includes threat likes;
- Activity at unexpected times—signing at 3 am to the network.
- Types of activity—accessing uncommon resources.
- The amount of traffic—transferring too much data via a network.
Compromised Vendor or Employees
These are the most common types of insider risk owners of the organizations or employees face because no one knows they are compromised or not. Unknowingly it mostly happens to the employee when they give access to the intruders by clicking a phreaking link in an email.
Now, I think you have detailed about the threat and its types.
Now, let us know,
What are the issues that every company faces?
Companies face various challenges. The most obvious ones are to secure the delicate data from leaking.
- Shielding their clients’ confidential data from the potential traitors leaking data outside the premises.
- Restricting the private information or data of their workers from outsiders.
- Reduce the use of exchanging data in the public domain.
Well, now you are aware of the issues that every organization faces from the insider threat.
Now, allow me to give the best solutions that every business-man takes to help their organization.
Reduce the Giveaway of the company details:
- Recognizing arising malware and risk online.
- Check the data maintained and edited by the staff or employees.
Check the traitors Inside the company premises:
- Continuous tracking of the access to the websites and apps.
- Identifying the irregular activity, additional hours of work, etc.
- Get a detailed summary of employee’s system activities and recognize the ones who break the data.
Examining the sessions at work:
Features of EmpMonitor that help the organizations from the malicious threat;
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Tracking browser history
