Best Practices for Insider Threats Prevention

Below are the practices for preventing insider threats-

• Always train your employees regarding insider threats, social engineering attacks, and phishing attacks. Teach your employees how to report and identify these threats. This will secure the overall organization.
• Before the employee hiring, make sure to do background checks such as to check if there are any criminal records of the employees or not. Background check reflects the overall behavior of the employee and secures the company from the wrong employee’s hiring.
• Teach employees to use strong passwords, and unique passwords in multiple accounts, and enable multi-factor authentication.
• Regularly review and update your system which helps to find the vulnerability in the system and recover the company data.
• Many employees work remotely and work in a Google sheet to track, update, and add important information or daily tasks. Make sure to give access to the sheet within the organization. for ex if someone in the organization has already accessed the Google sheet and shared the sheet outside the organization in that case if given access to the sheet someone outside the organization steals your sensitive data and misuses it to damage your organization’s reputation.
• Use a user behavior analytics tool that monitors the user behavior.
• Teach employees to report any suspicious activity going on in the organization. This will reduce insider threats and secure the company’s data.

Insider threat as the name suggests insider means someone in your company or organization steals the sensitive data or harms the organization. In this article, we will cover a brief explanation of insider threats and their types. Also, we will cover how to prevent insider threats.