Insider Risk Management
An Essential Step in Mitigating Risk
Let’s Evolve Your Insider Risk Program
At its core, insider risk is centered around people, their behaviors, and what risks apply to your organization. Our holistic approach to mitigating those risks enables your organization to proactively identify anomalous behaviors, correlate them across physical and virtual contexts, and visualize those behaviors in valuable, action-oriented ways.
Why are organizations missing insider threats?
Limited visibility. Fewer than 20% of enterprises have an insider risk management program. Instead, most organizations focus on external threats and fail to monitor authorized users or have limited data fidelity to support insider use cases.
Narrow focus. Organizations with an insider risk program frequently focus on data loss or technology only, forgetting the broader set of risks that insiders can uniquely pose to an organization.
Reactive, not proactive. While many organizations have alerting for technical control violations, most have opportunities to improve organizational controls to prevent insider activities from even occurring.
What are some key insider risk management considerations?
Cost of data loss. Risk management insider threats account for more than half of all data losses. Total insider risk costs have jumped 31%, from $8.76 million in 2018 to $11.45 million in 2020.*
*Ponemon Report 2020 Cost of Insider Threats: Global
Employee negligence. Many employees don’t fully understand policies, laws and regulations related to their work and how their organizations can be damaged by carelessness.
Malicious insiders. Frequently the most harmful, if successful, malicious insiders have in-depth knowledge of an organization’s security posture and know how to take advantage of its vulnerabilities.
Get Ahead of Your Insider Risks
It’s time to shift from a siloed perspective and stop thinking, “Technology can solve this.” How?
Optiv helps you proactively mitigate insider incidents and identify risks to minimize damage to your organization. We’ll educate, prepare, and arm you to prevent, detect, respond, and recover to threats quickly and effectively. We help you from the development stages of a program through the continuous improvement of your mature program.
Optiv’s insider risk management framework allows you to:
- Govern your insider risk program
- Protect your data, assets and people
- Detect anomalous or risky behavior
- Respond to potential incidents and recover quickly and effectively
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Our insider risk management framework includes developing an intentional culture focusing on supporting your workforce through challenging personal and professional events. You’ll establish employee programs that illustrate workforce value, with an overall goal of reducing insider activity risk.
Execute a Holistic Insider Risk Program
Partner with Optiv to develop and manage a successful insider risk program. We help our clients:
Advise and strategize a risk program that combines multiple methods of monitoring insider behavior while eliminating false positives.
Deploy policies, processes and the right technology stack to establish a baseline for normal data access and actively monitor policy violations.
Operate and monitor security events, both on-premises and in the cloud, to help prioritize your security team’s efforts and train your personnel.
The Optiv Team Has Been There, Done That
Our elite teams will help you build an insider risk management solution tailored to your unique environment.
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Insider Risk Management Service Brief
Assess your organization’s insider threat readiness and see how you benchmark against your peers.
Why Your Insider Risk Program Must Be Holistic
Join Optiv's James Turgal, a former FBI insider threat program builder, and Wendy Overton, Optiv's Director, Strategy & Transformation, in a conversation about proactively identifying and mitigating insider risk.
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