Author: Daniel Costa

Insider Threat – the potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization’s assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect...

We at the CERT Insider Threat Center are proud to announce the release of the fifth edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats (CSG). This edition of our best practice guide is based on our significantly...

The first practice described in the newly released edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats is Practice 1: Know and Protect Your Critical Assets. In this post, I discuss the importance and nature of this...

The second practice described in the newly released edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats is Practice 2: Develop a formalized insider threat program. In this post, I discuss why this practice is so...

The third practice described in the newly released edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats is Practice 3: Clearly document and consistently enforce policies and controls. In this post, I discuss the...