What is today’s biggest IT security threat?
IDC research finds that enterprise companies rank insider sources as their top security threat.
In addition, research from Carnegie Mellon University for the Department of Defense (DoD) finds that when it comes to insider attacks, 86 percent of perpetrators held technical positions. Of these, 57 percent performed the attack after termination.
Both reports found that insider attacks result in costly outages, lost business, legal liability and, inevitably, failed audits. In one case study, it took 115 employees 1,800 hours to restore data deleted by a disgruntled insider. At the time of the attack, the perpetrator was an ex-employee of the IT department who was able to remotely access key systems. According to these reports, IT insiders commonly acquire and maintain powerful system access using privileged accounts and passwords even after termination.
Here are six of the best practices recommended by Calum MacLeod (European director, Cyber-Ark Software) to battle insider menace:
1: Create an inventory [...]
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