The Proactive Power of Tabletop Exercises in Insider Risk Management

As the adage goes, “practice makes perfect.” To get as close to perfection as possible in any endeavor, one must expect there to be an education and practice quotient. This is especially true for insider risk management (IRM), where there is no room for error. For an IRM team, tabletop ... Read More

Measuring the Efficacy of your Insider Risk Program

For those dealing with insider risks for as long as I have, justifying the mission can feel akin to providing results to Fermat’s Last Theorem.  There are solutions to each challenge, but maintaining and securing buy-in against competing budgetary requirements is easier said than done. This is why measuring the ... Read More

Insider Risk Detection: Data Relationships Tell the Whole Story

Data comes in a multitude of formats and flavors: physical, cyber, organizational, and, of course, the human sensors. Collecting data is easy – it’s the lowest hanging fruit. Capturing and correlating complete and accurate data sets is not as straightforward. And when the data is flawed, drawing meaningful findings and ... Read More

Insider Risk Detection: Data Relationships Tell the Whole Story

Data comes in a multitude of formats and flavors: physical, cyber, organizational, and, of course, the human sensors. Collecting data is easy – it’s the lowest hanging fruit. Capturing and correlating complete and accurate data sets is not as straightforward. And when the data is flawed, drawing meaningful findings and ... Read More

Insider Risk Management | Why You Need an Employee Assistance Program

There is no debate, regardless of sector, that an organization’s most valuable resource is its people. It makes sense then that an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can support a holistic Insider Risk Management (IRM) program. Indeed, an EAP is a worthy investment that produces significant returns. The Case for an ... Read More

People: The Nuclei of Your Insider Risk Management Solution

Every company has them, some more than others. They are at home, across the seas, or down the hall. I am talking about your colleagues, partners, vendors, and customers, all of whom make up the ecosystem of your business success or failure. It stands to reason that the individual is ... Read More

Proactive Insider Risk Management | A Case for Technology Consolidation

It is often said that any insider risk program must have a technology component to be effective in today’s enterprise environment, and few would get an argument.  The technology stack is a combination of your eyes and your time machine, enabling you to understand the who, what, where, when, why ... Read More

Insider Risk: The Good, the Bad, the Indifferent

One of the key areas within the insider risk matrix is the role of the benevolent or malevolent employee. With the former, their actions are of good intent, though their execution and decision-making may be flawed and fraught with unintended consequences. With the latter, the employee knows their action is ... Read More

The Importance of Trust in your Insider Risk Program

A hydrologist will tell you water runs downhill. The same goes for policy decisions within companies, regardless of size. If leadership isn’t investing in an initiative beyond their initial messaging, then the downstream message flow will be the equivalent to an arid desert arroyo. A sudden flash and then, without ... Read More

Insider Risk: When Business Gets Personal

In an ideal world, there is a clear delineation of where personal and professional engagements take place: anything business related transpires on corporate devices on company time, while anything considered personal occurs elsewhere, away from the company clock and network. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world in 2020, organizations ... Read More