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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Facts About Insider Threat Prevention

By Amanda Hayes


Most of the attacks today are said to have had inside information. Therefore, as an employer you need to ensure that your company has insider threat prevention policies or measures. This will help you ensure that your employees and staff do not involve themselves in activities aimed at defrauding your company for one reason or the other. Below are a few pointers to help you identify inside defrauders.

Personal history of an employee is very crucial when you are hiring. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all the persons coming for job interviews in your organization fill a form aimed to provide their personal information. Personal history can greatly determine if that person will think of trading inside information or not. Therefore, only hire people with a good 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.

Computers are very used to access confidential information about the company. Therefore, it is only in your best interest if you spy on what your employees are accessing using their computers. Therefore, you should consider buying a software that indicates that places accessed by a particular computer. This way, you will be able to identify a person that tries to access confidential information.

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.

Most inside informant are very smart. They delete the log files when they access a computer. However, some of them forget to delete the error files if they have tried to access a system with protected by a password. Therefore, when you are checking the log files, you need to also check the error file since at times the log files can be deleted.

There are deliberate markers that inside attackers or informant leave. The markers are aimed to making a statement that most of the management do not recognize. Therefore, being able to identify the makers early enough can help you prevent an inside attack. The makers are sometimes obvious while others they are not. Therefore, be keen when look for them.

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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