Daily Insider Threat News – September 6, 2017

NEWS

• Insider Threat ‘Contributes’ To Growing Number Of Critical Infrastructure Attacks

  Silicon UK
  Researchers at IBM X-Force have warned in a new report that cyber attacks on critical infrastructure has been growing at a rapid pace, and will …

• ObserveIT Webinar on September 19: Cybersecurity Game Changers: A Look at Insider Threat …

  Markets Insider
  BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — ObserveIT, the leading insider threat monitoring and analytics solution provider with more than 1,500 …

• Balabit Focuses on Accelerating Growth in North America with New Executive Hires

  Business Wire (press release)
  … including both insider threats and external attacks using hi-jacked credentials. Working in conjunction with existing security tools, Balabit Privileged …

• Thycotic Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

  Markets Insider
  … growing provider of Privilege Management solutions that protect an organization’s most valuable assets from cyber-attacks and insider threats.

• What is the biggest threat to data? Ransomware of course

  Information Age
  Insider threats and denial of service are also considered top threats to sensitive data. While the majority of respondents indicated that they escaped …

• Know Your Data and Your Enemies: Establishing a Baseline for Proactive Threat Hunting

  Security Intelligence (blog)
  A user transferring data in bulk to a USB drive can also point to an insider threat that should be investigated. The good news is that many of the pieces …

• DIGIT LEADERS: Scotland, Cyber Security And Tech Talent

  DIGIT.FYI (blog)
  Let’s think about the recent HBO insider threat release of the Game of Thrones episodes – which were performed for various reasons, probably not for …

• How PIAM Brings a Bank’s Siloed Areas Together for a Secure and Compliant Enterprise

  ABA Banking Journal (blog)
  They are also vulnerable to insider threat by current employees and employees who are terminated, plus mistakes made by new hires who may not be …