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• Is your company and customer data being sold on the darknet?

  Increasingly businesses are monitoring the darknet for clues that their company and customer data is being exposed. But it’s no easy task.

• Former Snowden investigator: Bumbling bureaucracy means insiders get away with it

  ​You’ve identified an employee is stealing business critical information. What now? Who needs to know? Who can take action? Is this a CEO issue or an HR issue?

• Dtex software fights insider threats

  Dtex Systems, a security company born in Australia 15 years ago, is just now bringing its insider-threat-detection software to the U.S.

• How to recognise the cyber insider threat

  Losing business to a competitor because one of your trusted employees has walked out the door with sensitive information doesn’t need to happen if you look for the signs and put controls in place, according to a panel of cyber security experts.

• Take a data-centric approach to securing information in the cloud to protect against the risks of privileged users

  Privileged users such as system, network and domain administrators can pose a significant threat to mission-critical systems or ones holding highly sensitive data. In fact, the consequences of a disruption in service or stolen confidential information can be severe enough ruin a business. Revocation of certifications, loss of critical intellectual property, and exposure to the consequences of a data breach disclosure are all part of the consequences.

Whitepapers about insider threat

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  Detect, defend against and recover from insider attacks

  Accept that sooner or later you’re going to have someone prowling around your network looking to cause damage or steal your critical data. Even the best perimeter defenses can do nothing to stop them, so it's essential to also have strong Active Directory security and governance in place. Here is a how to on combating the insider threat effectively.