For any organization, insider attacks are like a severe illness: prevention is better than the cure. Like illnesses, insiders mask their malicious actions and can harm your organization for a long time before you detect them. This harm can be in the form of a loss of data, customers, money, etc.

Planning a risk mitigation process helps to stop insider attacks at the early stages or reduce their potential damage. In this article, we discuss how to mitigate insider threats, why it’s worth doing, what the key steps are in this process, and how Ekran System can...

While organizations are spending a good deal of money protecting their data against unauthorized access from the outside, malicious insiders may pose no less harm. According to the 2021 Data Breach Investigation Report [PDF] by Verizon, 36% of all data breaches experienced by large organizations in 2020 were caused by internal actors. For small and midsize businesses, it was 44%.

Organizations that become victims of malicious insider attacks face many negative consequences: from loss of confidential data, revenue, and clients to reputational harm or even going out of...