DEFINING INSIDER THREATS
Insider threats are complex and dynamic risks. To affect the public and private domains. And all critical infrastructure sectors. About insiders and the threats and Defining these is a critical step in understanding and establishing an insider mitigation program.
What is an Insider?
An insider is any person who has or has had authorized access to or knowledge of an organization’s resources, including personnel, facilities, information, equipment, networks, and systems. Someone the organization trusts, including employees, members of the organization, and those to whom the organization has provided sensitive information and access. when A person receives a badge or access device that identifies them as a person with regular and continuous access (for example, an employee or member of an organization, a contractor, a supplier, a guard, or a repairer).
A person who develops the products and services of the organization; Then this group includes those who know the secrets of the products that bring value to the organization. Someone who knows the fundamentals of the organization, including prices, costs, and the strengths and weaknesses of the organization.
Someone who is aware of the business strategy and plans the organization has, entrusted with plans or means to support the organization, ensuring the well-being of the employees. So This means that the insider may refer to an access holder who can gain access to protected information which, if leaked or compromised, would harm national security and public safety.
What is the internal threat?
So The insider threat is the ability of an insider to use their authorized access to or knowledge of an organization to harm it. Then This could be through malicious, non-caring, or otherwise unintentional acts intended to damage the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the organization, its data, staff, or facilities. So External stakeholders and DHS clients may find this generic definition better suited and adaptable to their organization’s use.
Defining Insider Threats
The Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines insider threat as the threat that an insider will use their authorized access, intentionally or not, Defining Internal Threats to harm the mission, facilities, information, networks, or systems. So This threat can manifest itself as damage to the Ministry through the following internal behaviors:
1. Espionage
2. Terrorism
3. Unauthorized
4. disclosure of information
5. Corruption, including participation in transnational organized crime
6. Sabotage
7. Workplace violence
8. Departmental resources suffer an intentional or unintentional loss or degradation of their capacity.
What Are the Types of Insider Threats?
Unintentional threat
Negligence –
Such an insider exposes an organization to a negligent threat. But they decide to ignore them. And creating a threat to the organization. Sensitive information is lost from the portable storage device. And include ignoring messages to install new ones. So the Security updates and fixes.
Accidental –
An insider of this type mistakenly causes an unforeseen risk to an organization. Then Organizations can work successfully to minimize accidents, but they will happen; they cannot be completely avoided, but those that do occur can be mitigated. Then Examples include entering an email address incorrectly and accidentally sending a confidential business document to a competitor, unknowingly or inadvertently clicking on a hyperlink, and opening an attachment. So that contains a virus in a phishing email or inappropriate confidential documents.
Intentional threats –
Intentional threats are actions taken to harm an organization for personal gain or in response to a personal grievance. So The intentional insider is often synonymous with “malicious insider”. Then Motivation is personal gain or damage to the organization. For example, many interns are motivated to “get revenge” due to unmet expectations related to a lack of recognition (e.g., promotions, bonuses, desirable travel) or even termination. So Their actions include leaking confidential information, harassing associates, sabotaging equipment, or committing violence. So Others have stolen private data or intellectual property in the false hope of advancing their careers.
Other threats Collusive threats
A subset of malicious Intentional threats are collusion threats. including one or more intentional collaborators with an external threat actor to compromise an organization. These incidents frequently involve cybercriminals recruiting one or more insiders to enable fraud, intellectual property theft, espionage, or a combination of the three.
Third-Party Threats: Additionally, It contracts or vendors. but who grant some level of access to facilities, systems, networks, or people. to do your job. These threats are direct or indirect.
How Does an Insider Threat Occur?
Violence – This action includes the threat of violence, as well as other threatening behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or abusive environment.
Workplace / organizational violence is any action or threat of physical violence, harassment, sexual harassment, intimidation, intimidation, offensive jokes, or other threatening behavior by a colleague or associate that occurs on the premises. At a person’s workplace or while they are working. Terrorism as an insider threat is an illegal use or threat of violence by employees, members, or other persons closely associated with an organization, against that organization. Terrorism aims to promote a political or social objective.
Espionage – Espionage refers to the surreptitious or illegal act of spying on a foreign government, organization, entity, or person in pursuit of obtaining confidential information for military, political, strategic, or financial purposes.
Financial espionage is the secret practice of obtaining trade secrets from abroad. For example, all types and financial and business, scientific, technical, financial, or engineering information. And methods, techniques, processes, processes, programs or code production. Government espionage is the act of gathering intelligence. Which is done against another government for political or military gain from one government. It can also include governments spying on legal entities such as aviation companies, consulting firms, think tanks, or ammunition companies. Government espionage is also known as intelligence gathering.
Criminal espionage involves a US citizen who betrays US government secrets to foreign nations.
Sabotage –
Sabotage describes deliberate actions aimed at damaging an organization’s physical or virtual infrastructure, including failure to follow maintenance or IT procedures, contamination of clean spaces, physically damaging facilities, or removal of code. to prevent regular operations. Physical sabotage involves taking deliberate action to harm an organization’s physical infrastructure (e.g., facilities or equipment). Virtual sabotage takes malicious action through technical means to disrupt or stop the normal business operations of an organization.
Heist –
A robbery is a simple act of theft. Whether it’s money or intellectual property. Not only this, taking money or property from a person illegally is a financial crime. Or to use illegally. Companies and for-profit organizations. Intellectual property theft is an individual’s or organization’s idea, i.e. theft of invention and theft of creative expression. With trade as well as proprietary products And . even the concepts and objects of theft came.
Cyber -
Digital threats include theft, related to technology, virtual reality, computers, devices, and the Internet.
Unintentional threats are the non-malicious (often accidental or inadvertent) exposure of an organization. IT infrastructure, systems, and data that cause unintentional damage to an organization. Examples include phishing emails, malware, and “malvertising” (embedding malicious content into a legitimate online advertisement). Which are used to disrupt the regular business operations of an organization. Or use technical means to stop it. Identify IT vulnerabilities, obtain protected information, or plan attacks by the intrusion. Computer system. This action may involve modifying data or inserting malware or other offensive software to disrupt systems and networks.
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