The Increasing Insider Risk of Emerging Healthcare Technology
Earlier this month, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a grave warning about the security implications of emerging technology in the healthcare sector. The report makes it clear that new technologies such as AI, 5G networks, nanomedicine, smart hospitals, and quantum computing are helping providers to improve health ... Read More
Protect Your Data: Cyber Security Tips for Online Shopping This Mother’s Day
In this blog, we frequently focus on how organizations can protect against malicious insider threats. However, we haven’t forgotten about external threats. Today, we want to dive into the rise in malicious external threats and how organizations can best protect their workforce and company data. It’s not unusual for hackers ... Read More
DTEX i3 Team Q&A: The Super Malicious Insider
Earlier this year we published an in-depth report on the insider risk landscape for 2022, with research from the DTEX i3 Team and real-life investigations they’ve led. Last year we saw remote work become the norm, employees being targeted by hackers more than ever, and the rise of the Super ... Read More
Burner Phones, Fake Social Profiles, Cat Fishing—Not a Valentine’s Day Horror Story, It’s the Super Malicious Insider
Netflix recently released a new documentary which is timely to today—Valentine’s Day. It tells the story of The Tinder Swindler, a man who pretended to be a wealthy diamond mogul and courted women on dating apps as part of one big scheme to ultimately con them out of millions of ... Read More
Stories from the Field: How DTEX i3 Identified Personal Criminal Activity on a Corporate Device
When sports started being televised 50+ years ago, it brought a new level of visibility to teams and games. You no longer needed to be in or from the town or city, or correlate multiple sources of information from newspapers and radio broadcasts just to find out what happened. Then, ... Read More
New Year, New Security Risks: Why 2022 Will be The Year of Data Introduction
Cybersecurity threats continued to advance in 2021, as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation for enterprises around the world. In today’s distributed, remote environment, the workforce is the new firewall, raising the stakes for insider threat detection significantly. In fact, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach and Incident Response Report ... Read More
CISA Insider Threat Self-Assessment Tool Hits the ‘Metadata’ Point
In late October the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory warning that threat groups are targeting United States drinking water and wastewater infrastructure operations via vulnerabilities in hardware and software. The ... Read More
The Grinch of the Enterprise: Attackers That Take Advantage of Risky Employee Behaviors
With the holiday season upon us, it’s truly an incredible time of year. Folks are planning holiday get-togethers, searching for the perfect gifts for their loved ones, and radio stations are already playing (arguably too many) holiday tunes. While everyone should embrace the holiday spirit and look forward to their ... Read More
No One Wins Alone – DTEX I3 Responds to Growing Need for Insider Risk Services
On Wednesday, October 27th my colleagues and I here at DTEX Systems did a thing…we answered the market’s ‘bat signal’ and expanded our team to help public and private organizations take the guess work out of internal risk assessment, digital forensic evidence collection, and workforce vulnerability awareness. We unveiled DTEX ... Read More
CISA Warns of Water, Wastewater Infrastructure Security Threats on Heels of Insider Threat Self-Assessment Tool Release
On Thursday, October 14th the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory warning that threat groups are targeting United States drinking water and wastewater infrastructure operations via vulnerabilities in hardware and software ... Read More
