Do You Understand Insider Risk and What To Do About It?
When you consider the risk to your business posed by employees, do you automatically envisage a few disgruntled, malicious, or compromised individuals? If so, you're missing most of your vulnerabilities.
Where is the risk?
When RSA defines 'insider risk', we recognize that most of it is the result of non-malicious, non-deliberate activity.
Every business needs to trust and empower its employees, contractors, and temporary staff, giving them access to the systems and information that let them do their jobs effectively. But the mere act of sharing makes systems and information vulnerable-to unintentional breaches of security and accidental loss, which our research shows is much more common than deliberate attack or theft.
The risk can be most acute when economic forces bite, putting your workforce under pressure to do more with less. The stress of tough times can make errors and process shortcuts more common; information security is an unfortunate casualty.
So why do many organizations continue to focus mainly on external threats? Because, as our research shows, they have little visibility of the nature and scale of the internal risk landscape: it's a huge unknown.
Making the invisible visible
An ad-hoc approach-reacting to internal incidents as they occur, with point solutions-is neither cost-efficient nor effective in preventing future incidents. You need a single, integrated approach: a risk management framework backed by appropriate solutions that let you discover and understand insider risk; and take control quickly and cost-effectively, across your entire operation.
That's where RSA's expertise comes in. Our professional services teams have helped thousands of organizations globally to tackle both insider and external risk in an integrated way. We'll help you direct your security investments where they'll do the most good, while maintaining the trust relationship you have with your employees: balancing trust and accessibility with security.
