Insider Risk Management or Insider Threat Surveillance?
The risk from malicious insiders has long been top-of-mind among security professionals. More recently it has grabbed the attention of executive teams and board members. Addressing the risk is more complicated. Employees, vendors, and partners require access to sensitive information, and heavy-handed approaches using complicated and static rules that can ... Read More
Workforce Cyber Intelligence & Security News Digest – April 2022
Insider threats continue to be a major area of concern for cyber security professionals across the world—and for good reason! These challenges will only grow more complex in the months ahead for organizations adapting to a hybrid work environment, looking to increase their remote worker security. Luckily, DTEX representatives have ... Read More
A New Day, A New Warning: HHS Issues Guidance to HPH Sector About Insider Threats in Healthcare
Earlier this month the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a report on the risk to the healthcare sector from malicious insiders. Why now? The Lapsus$ group hack of Okta and subsequent breaches at healthcare organizations brought to light the risk to all ... Read More
Why Striking the Balance Between Insider Risk and Privacy is More Important Than Ever
The last three years have changed the workplace more than any other period in history. We’re now in a new phase with pandemic restrictions easing across the board and most organizations around the world in full “return to office” mode. While this is dominating the current headlines, the reality is ... Read More
Workforce Cyber Intelligence & Security News Digest—March 2022
It’s crazy to believe it’s already been a month since we shared our last Workforce Cyber Intelligence & Security News Digest. As they say, time flies when you’re having fun. During the month of March, two major news announcements came out of DTEX. We announced our positive company momentum and ... Read More
World Backup Day: How Insider Threats Intersect with Data Backup and Best Practices for Insider Risk Management
World Backup Day is a great time to review the basics of backing up data, and looking ahead to 2022, insider risk management is one key areas to focus on when it comes to data backup. A backup is an additional copy of data and can include an array of ... Read More
The Great Data Infiltration of 2022—The Data You Don’t Want & Why
Sensitive Data and Infiltration Risk The Great Resignation picked up steam in 2021. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics over 32.7 million workers voluntarily quit their jobs in 2021, an increase of over 30% from 2020 and 2019. Total separations, which include layoffs and terminations, decreased by ... Read More
How DTEX’s Data Pseudonymization Techniques Protect Employee Privacy
Making an effort to balance privacy and security is vital for organizations who want to thrive in the new normal. As the findings of our 2021 State of Workforce Privacy and Risk Report showed, more than half (63%) of companies surveyed believe it’s important to protect employee privacy, yet less ... Read More
How to Protect Your Work-From-Home Workforce—Examining Forrester Research’s Take
Not too long ago Heidi Shey of Forrester Research released her thoughts on how enterprises can best protect the work-from-home workforce. The report, appropriately titled, “Protect Your Work-From-Home Workforce,” outlines well the challenges security and compliance professionals face in the “new normal.” Home “offices” might be a living room or ... Read More
How Work-from-Anywhere Affects Employee Behavior
For the past two years most of the people reading this blog have worked from home. While we have all enjoyed the headaches of commuting (particularly true in the Boston, NYC, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Chicago areas), work-from-anywhere (WFA) has been even more of a pain for IT and ... Read More
