Features

• Provides new insights on issues such as sabotage, profiling offenders, the psychology of offenders, the role of forensics, and the role of technology in detection and prevention
• Offers insights from finance, retail and government sectors
• Discusses practical issues such as the nature and scale of insider threats, how to build effective responses, current and emerging technologies and their likely effectiveness, and screening and monitoring
• Considers ethical issues including balancing security and employees' rights, human factors and organizational culture, managing the damage to reputation, and information sharing
• Lays out a proactive, preventive program

Summary

A comprehensive overview of insider threat management, this book adopts a systematic approach to assessing, monitoring, and mitigating security threats from insiders. Emphasizing the need for senior management awareness, training, and education, it includes a brief history of computer crime and hacking, analysis of significant insider threat types, legal and human resource implications, and practical strategies. Along with sample materials and templates in each chapter, it provides a glossary and references section to allow for further research into the concepts and theories presented in the book.