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How Security Teams Can Combat Social Engineering and Insider Threats

By understanding how intelligence officers have traditionally recruited, assessed and developed spies for decades, security leaders can harden their organizations to bad actors.  By Nicole Müller & Elsine van Os. In Security Magazine Companies often focus on peripheral security controls to keep external attackers outside. In the meantime, malicious perpetrators have adapted their tactics accordingly […]

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Why Hostile Work Environments Provoke Insider Risk

When employees go rogue, hostile work environments might be part of the cause By Scott Dust & Elsine van Os In Psychology Today One year ago, Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old Saudi aviation student studying at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, FL, shot and killed three U.S. Navy Sailors. Last week, the 260-page investigation was […]

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Ports: Securing from the Inside Out

  Highlights Recent years have seen a strengthening of the power and position of the drug industry and illegal activities in Europe.  Criminals cannot operate without insider knowledge and legitimate access.  A focus on insiders threat in ports and insider risk management will have multiple effects: caring for your employees; minimizing the opportunity for insiders; […]

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Two-Front War: Biotechnology’s fight against COVID-19 and Nation State Attackers

  Highlights Geopolitical tensions are played out in the biotech research frontlines. Sector Vulnerabilities: balancing IP protection with third party accesses Legitimate gains? Obtaining insider access to IP through foreign direct investment (FDI) and nontraditional collectors Insider threats within biotechnology pose risks for organizations…and society. Are governments and organizations ready to manage these risks, especially […]

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A Formula for Insider Risk Management in the Chemicals Sector

Highlights Almost 30% of industry turnover depends on trade secrets, although at the company level that percentage can reach 80-100% when the trade secret is the foundation of the product or process differentiation. Companies have lost tens of millions, sometimes hundreds of millions, in research investments in recent trade secret theft cases. Classify, compartmentalize and […]

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