Best Practices for Mitigating and Investigating Insider Threats
Eliminating the possibility of an insider threat is nearly impossible. However, some strategies, widely considered insider threat best practices by the cybersecurity community, help minimize the chances of insider threats materializing through mitigation and investigation. Mitigating insider threats focuses on putting systems into place that thwart malicious and unintentional insider threats to data. While insider […]
September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month: What Businesses Need to Know to Keep Data Secure
A man walks into a bar with a USB flash drive containing the personal information of every resident of an entire city. This isn’t the setup for a joke. This is the story of a city worker in Amagasaki, Japan, who carried a USB flash drive in his bag containing personally identifiable information, including birth […]
Strategies To Improve the Performance Of Employees
In a new age of remote work, distributed work and flexible work models, managers have a big job identifying productivity and performance goals and outcomes. Back in the 20th century, many jobs were a lot more like factory assembly lines. It was generally easier to measure productivity in completed units of work, or accounts handled, […]
Tackling the Top 5 Internal Data Security Threats Facing Businesses Today
Cybersecurity has never been what you might call easy. But it is safe to say that doing it well over the past few years has gotten objectively harder. The reasons are many. Ransomware-as-a-Service, the rapid shift to remote and then to hybrid, and the massive adoption of the cloud that massively improves productivity but opens […]
Data in Practice: The Best Workforce Analytics Examples in the Real World
As companies grapple with various unique challenges, including a rapid transition to remote or hybrid work, rising resignations, DEI commitments, and market turmoil, leaders are looking for actionable insights that can power better decisions. Consequently, workforce analytics are becoming more popular and influential than ever before. Today, seventy percent of business executives say workforce analytics […]
The Best Practices to Prevent Data Breaches in Today’s Cyber Threat Landscape
From small businesses to the corporate ‘big fish,’ all sorts of companies fear a data breach situation. There are many different kinds of insider threats and cyberattacks that can result in a data breach, where the company loses sensitive data, triggering liabilities and other problems. So what are some of the top security vulnerabilities that […]
The Most Common Causes of Data Breaches in Highly Regulated Industries
Organizations in highly regulated industries struggle to keep up with changing requirements, with 62% of risk executives saying that policy shifts in technology and data are leading to the most change in their business. Not only must these organizations comply with industry-specific regulations and general data protection regulations, but they must also defend against the […]
