What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

Insider threats are one of the most difficult security challenges that organisations face. Staying safe isn’t simply about stopping criminal hackers from breaking into your systems, because the vulnerabilities already inside your organisation. A malicious threat can be an employee, contractor or business partner who is liable to leak sensitive information. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by
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How Secure Is IoT Data Transmission?

How Secure Is IoT Data Transmission?

The internet has become a part of daily life for most people worldwide. The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has taken it further, becoming one of the world’s most influential and revolutionary technologies.   The IoT is a network of connected devices and appliances. For example, intelligent homes let you control lighting, refrigerators, air […]
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Mobile device security policy

PURPOSE This Mobile Device Security Policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for mobile device security needs in order to protect businesses and their employees. This policy can be customized as needed to fit the needs of your organization. From the policy: REQUIREMENT FOR USERS If using a company-owned device, ensure that all mobile device use …
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MEO – 8,227 breached accounts

In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask companyMEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes. MEO did not respond to multiple attempts to report the breach.

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Incident response policy

PURPOSE Every enterprise needs to establish a plan of action to assess and then recover from unauthorized access to its network. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides a foundation from which to start building your specific procedures. From the policy: ASSIGN AN INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM An incident response team should be put together and a …
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Terravision – 2,075,625 breached accounts

In February 2023, the European airport transfers service Terravision suffered a data breach. The breach exposed over 2M records of customer data including names, phone numbers, email addresses, salted password hashes and in some cases, date of birth and country of origin. Terravision did not respond to multiple attempts by individuals period over a period of months to report the incident.

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