Your Shield Against Insider Attacks
Your Shield Against Insider Attacks
Organizations face the challenges of protecting their sensitive and important data in a world of booming technology. While external threats are always the topic of discussion, insider threats are also something to be careful about, and different types of applications introduce a new wave of vulnerabilities. Recent incidents, including the big case at Tesla, force companies to alter their defense tragedies to be alert to threats inside of an organization.
Even tech giants like Microsoft have fallen prey to insider crime, emphasizing the need for a good strategy to fight this growing danger. Over the past four years, we have seen a forty percent increase in the average annual cost of insider risks, urging organizations to reevaluate their internal data security policies.
Most Important Steps for Defense
Control Access/Permissions:
Configure access controls and regularly review permissions based on job positions. Give users only the access they need to carry out the job itself.
Monitoring:
Deploy monitoring tools to track user activities within different applications, allowing the detection of malicious behavior as early as possible.
Offboarding of employees: Develop great offboarding procedures to remove access to any application they were using when an employee departs.
Encryption: Encourage encryption of sensitive and important data within SaaS (Software as a Service) applications.
Security Awareness and Training Programs:
Push for the knowledge of security awareness, encouraging employees to report any suspicious behavior and testing them regularly. This can be done with monthly training and simulations.
At EV-consultech, we take security awareness very seriously and ensure that all our clients are protected against insider and outsider threats. With our regular training and simulations, our users are exposed to the worst-case scenarios and are prepared in the event of a potential attack from any source, internal and external. We are always here to combat any type of cyber attack with state of the art tools we provide to our clients as part of our managed IT services.
