Insider Threat - A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within

Successfully build a defense program against insider threats

This book – the most in-depth guide on the market – is the ideal resource for anyone looking to learn how a security culture based on international best practice can help mitigate the insider threat to your security.

Every type of organization, is vulnerable to insider abuse, errors, or malicious attacks. These can impact reputation, operations, and profitability, and expose data, harm the organization, or deliver valuable intellectual property into competitors’ hands.

Insiders can be current or former employees, contractors, or other business partners who have been granted authorized, access to networks, systems, or data, and all of them can bypass security measures through legitimate means.

Insider Threat – A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within looks beyond perimeter protection tools and details how to build a defense program using security controls from the international standards ISO 27001 and ISO 27002, and NIST SP 800-53. 

International best practice to implement a high-impact plan

Using international best practice, this in-depth guide will help you address:

• Risk mitigation and the eight steps of a risk assessment
• Staff training and awareness, and conducting background screening
• Monitoring and auditing the activities of general and privileged users, and quickly responding to suspicious behaviors
• Metrics to measure insider threat behavior and mitigation
• The challenge of external or temporary insiders (such as consultants, support contractors, partners, service providers, temporary employees)
• Layering physical and digital defenses to provide defense in depth
• The importance of conducting regular penetration testing to evaluate security controls
• Limiting, monitoring and controlling remote access and mobile device use
• Ensuring supply-chain security
• Maintaining an incident management capability