Enemies are Closer than You Think: Preventing Insider Cyber Attacks

In today's digital world, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and frequent, posing a severe threat to individuals, organisations, and businesses worldwide. When we think about cyber threats, we often picture external hackers and malicious actors trying to infiltrate our networks, but what about the dangers that lie within?

That's right - insider threats can be just as dangerous, if not more so, than external attacks. 

Whether it's a disgruntled employee, a third-party vendor with access to sensitive information, or a partner with nefarious intentions, insider attacks can cause significant damage to an organisation's reputation, finances, and operations. 

So, what’s the solution? 

The Insider Threat TTP Knowledge Base

The Insider Threat TTP (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) Knowledge Base aims to advance our collective understanding of the technical mechanisms that insider threats have used. 

With this knowledge, Insider Threat Programmes and Security Operations Centres can stop insider threats by detecting, mitigating, and emulating insider actions on IT systems.

Utilising the Knowledge Base, cyber defenders across organisations will identify insider threat activity on IT systems and limit the damage. 

Capturing and sharing the Design Principles and Methodology for developing the Knowledge Base is a foundational step to establishing this community resource and also enabling its broad adoption and ongoing development.

This knowledge base allows defenders to quickly focus on understanding how the controls in use in their environment relate to adversary TTPs.

A Collective Effort 

This project brought together companies with deep knowledge and experience in Insider Threat detection and response and delivered a Knowledge Base for the benefit of the broader community built on real-world case data and observed TTPs. This collective and community-built knowledge is at the heart of the threat-informed defence concept. 

And I’d say that’s exactly why it works so well. 

Want to find out more about the Insider Threat Knowledge Base? Or simply want to know more about how threat-informed defence can keep your business safe, secure and running smoothly? 

Don't hesitate to send me a message. 

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