Sunday, 8 October 2017

Information That You Need To Know About Insider Threat Prevention

By Amanda Hayes


Statistics have shown that most companies are prone to inside attacks. This is because most of them have not developed policies for insider threat prevention. Most attacks that happen in big companies and sometime small ones, they are perpetuated outsider with help from inside persons. Below are tips that will help you identify a person that is likely to cause trouble.

If you want to ensure that you do not employ any person that can be a risk to your safety or the safety of others, you need to conduct your due diligence when you are hiring. Every person you hire should present their background information. This information will help you be aware of their personal history. Therefore, you will be in a position to determine their behaviour judging from their history.

The other identifier is verbal behaviour. Most inside attackers are very verbal in a negative way. They always complain of the working conditions even if the management is working tirelessly to ensure that every employee is comfortable. They are also not afraid to take on the management on a verbal exchange. Therefore, watch out all the verbal employees in your organization.

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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