Insider threats are a multi-million-dollar problem for many organizations, impacting organizations of all sizes and sectors. Although the methods of attack can vary, the primary types of incidents—theft of intellectual property (IP), sabotage, fraud, espionage, unintentional incidents, and misuse—continue to be the archetypes of insider threat events.
The Effect of Insider Threat Actors
According to Carnegie Mellon University, “Insider Threat [is] the potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's critical assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization.”