Dealing with the Enemy Within

01 April 2016 | Updated 01 January 1970

The so-called insider threat issue has become one of the major concerns surrounding data protection and according to Verizon DBIR, 69% of reported security incidents involved an insider with detection with such an attack taking some 32 months to unearth.

The ObserveIT option is said to allow management to:

Achieve real time visibility into all insider threats.
Identify and prevent unauthorised behaviour.
Complete investigations in minutes instead of months.

Claiming to offer more than software for the monitoring of employees the system is being promoted as a behavioural analytics tool that builds a profile of risky behaviour allowing management to be alerted at an early stage, to anything of concern. Actions are graded in terms of severity and moved up the scale until an alert is triggered which highlights the need for investigation. In addition, the system is said to be a useful training tool as it alerts users to their actions, enabling them to re-consider their choices.

“Many security incidents stem from people, whether it’s getting infected, misbehaving or making honest mistakes but being able to be alerted to unauthorised activity early on enables a company’s security policy to be enforced, at an early stage, helping to eliminate risk at source,” explained Colin Tankard, MD, Digital Pathways. “Digital Pathways specialises in the installation of robust data security measures and teaming up with ObserveIt now bridges the gap between external and internal security.”

Picture: Colin Tankard, MD, Digital Pathways – partnership with ObserveIT bridges the gap in tackling insider threats

Article written by Robin Snow | Published 01 April 2016