The Threat Of Cyber Security

In such cases, the organization will not have any capital loss, but will lose precious data-sets that is stored in the system. Further, there could be various root causes of such threats. The criminal intentions of the inner employees, the breaching intentions of the hackers and even the poor infrastructure could also be one of the major root causes of such threats. Hence, there is a need to develop solutions that will help to overcome the threats associated with each of the risk

Companies and Corporations are also at risk from insider threats. A careless or disgruntled employee is capable of divulging confidential or secrete information, faster than any outside threat or hacker, if

In the InfoSec industry, CTOs have witnessed many inside jobs also known as insider threats. These threats usually comprise of individuals or groups of people in organizations or companies. These individuals may include employees, contractors, business associates or partners. They try to deliberately contribute to or begin to breach the network of the company to sabotage or steal information. Because these people are already inside the company, they have the advantage of being familiar with how the network works in the company, having login credentials, having ways to keep their position in the company without getting caught and being able to access information about clients. These insider

Before my team assessed the efficacy of an insider threat program, we lacked several essential aspects crucial for mitigating, detecting, and preventing insider threats. Our former insider threat program lacked a lot of essential things and thus, made Goliath National Bank vulnerable to insider threats that could have potentially harmed its assets and intellectual property like trade secrets, strategic plans, and other confidential information. In order to protect the organization, Avatar should have placed more emphasis upon behavioral indicators instead of directing most of their effort and attention on technical indicators. If Goliath National Bank had noticed the red flags and realized that the insider threat was a disgruntled employee, he wouldn’t have been able to create and inflict so much damage through espionage. Thus, it is crucial for organizations to monitor their employee’s network on their personal or work device. In addition, our insider threat program lacked two of the five NIST framework core functions (i.e. identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover), which are important for risk management. Our insider threat program failed to address the respond and recover function. Since all the functions are interdependent upon one another and are necessary for proper, prompt, and efficient risk management, without any one of them, a lot of damage can result. The response function is essential because it has to do with the actions needed to be taken after a cyber security threat is detected. An organization has to know prior what specific action they want to take, whether it plans to gather data for law enforcement or take legal action to prevent the situation from escalating. The decision is crucial because it impacts the direction the organization takes. The recover function is crucial because it serves to decrease the impact and restore

Insider threats are considered as one of the most serious security problems in many studies and have received considerable attention among organizations over the world. This report will present the term “insider” and “insider threats” in cyber security, motives and effects of insider threats, underlying issues and causes of insider threats, prevention and detection of insider threats and management of insider threats within the organizations. The report will include case studies of malicious insider threats on IT sabotage and fraud as well as oblivious insider threats with analysis and discussions.

Even the focus of securing networks has moved from just intrusion detection to intrusion detection and prevention (Golomb, 2003). Although most companies have significant investments in physical security (security guards and laptop locks) and data security (IDS/IPS and firewalls), one of the biggest and yet most misunderstood threats is from internal sources.

Managers in the information technology sector are faced with various challenges. Above all, the single most cybersecurity vulnerability remains to be individuals or employees in organizations. This is because lapses in the security system always start with members of staff. Moreover, the above-mentioned individuals are the primary defense mechanism. The range of activities that come up as a result of human error are many, most of the time involving acts of trespass, extortion, vandalism and even theft. The reason behind vulnerability is in the fact that efforts of protection are easily defeated and would only require a person who is against your interests in a particular way. An example is a scenario where an employee decides to infect the system of an organization with a virus. Nevertheless, the same person could become negligent in his duties and give an unauthorized colleague usernames and passwords to systems. The consequences that lie in this would be dire in that it can facilitate crime and sharing of files, which may be considered confidential by a company.

The insider threat refers to harmful acts that trusted individuals might carry out; for example, something that causes harm to the organization, or an unauthorized act that benefits the individual. The insider threat is manifested when human behaviors depart from established policies, regardless of whether it results from malice or disregard for security policies. The most serious crimes and abuses include espionage, sabotage, terrorism, embezzlement, extortion, bribery, and corruption.

To start, all organizations that participated in the study agreed that the simple step of intensifying IT awareness and providing training for employees would help information security. However, this is not the typical one-time training session, it was argued that organizations should continuously educate and conduct training programs. The systems are constantly changing and intruders are constantly finding ways around. It is important to have frequent training and emphasize the importance to hone users skills to prevent attacks and understand procedures if an attack were to occur. Nevertheless, there is still a downfall. It is also possible for organization’s own employee to carry out ‘insider threat damages,’ which has been found to be the biggest threat to information security. Evidently, it is not possible to protect information even with the best software, but with more educated users, the smaller the chances of being hacked externally. Furthermore, if employees fail to properly handle

Cyberysecurity is the hot topic of talks among governmental agencies, businesses, individuals, and the global community as a whole. Recent high profile attacks, such as Target, Sony, SWIFT, and the US government, has brought great attention and awareness to this topic. The White House has been raising awareness on its website with an article posted February 2, 2016 by Lisa O. Manaco to drive the White House 's position on cybersecurity. The administration is trying to build improvements to the nation 's cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is broad due to its vast and unpredictable nature. Its scary to think that cybersecurity is the future of warfare. When president Obama got elected he

It takes time and money to adjust IT security measures in response to evolving attack tactics. As defenders gradually update their security measures, attackers respond accordingly. Such arms-race dynamics lead to threats of increasing sophistication and efficiency. Today’s cybercriminals often have a long-term interest in their targets and often employ social engineering to get inside a protected environment. Their tactics commonly include malicious payload that attempts to compromise the victim’s system and may continue spreading within the organization. They also increasingly focus on weaknesses at the application, rather than system or network levels, to obtain data that provide the most value.

Today cyber security causes huge problems for Society: personally, financially and even in matters of national security. Just in the last two years, hundreds of millions of credit card numbers have been stolen. Tens of millions of Social Security numbers and health care records were compromised and even nuclear energy centers have been hacked. Also unmanned drones have been hijacked. This is all done by exploiting vulnerabilities in hardware and software, or more often by taking an advantage of unintentional decisions made by the people using the software. The people committing these cybercrimes don’t fit a single profile or motivation, it could be anyone from an international terrorist to a teenager competing for bragging rights. Today the largest countries not only have a regular army but also have a well-armed Cyber Army, in fact the next World War may not be fought with traditional weapons but with computer used to shut down a nation’s water supplies, energy grid and transportation systems. This essay will discuss how cyber security is compromised, what systems are in place to defend cyber-attacks and also how to remain safe when using the internet.

Insider attacks are one of the leading causes of data breaches and it remains one of the hardest to protect against. Given the amount of computer and internet usage in most modern companies, Information Security is a fast growing industry. There are a number of ways a company 's network could be compromised. However, one of the leading threats a company faces is the threat of an insider attack. This paper will focus on understanding what insider attack is and the different types of attacks. As well as, giving steps that can be taken to reduce a company 's vulnerability to insider attack.

An internal threat concerning employees is a wide-ranging issue as it can encompass various situations. The primary issue stems from an authorized, nontechnical user or a system that can utilize the system without creating a “red flag.” (Peltier, 187).

There are three main areas identified as threat vectors for cyber security in relation to CIP: IT networks, insider threats, and equipment and software. Normally, ICS operate on an internal network, called OT (Operational Technology). Occasionally, this isolated network requires a connection to the organization’s corporate network (IT) for routine operation and management. As displayed in the Ukraine blackout, cyber threats infiltrate an organization’s IT systems in order to access ICS networks on the OT network. The methods used to achieve access are often not complex procedures and “can be achieved using a wide array of methods, such as spear phishing, malicious URLs, drive-by attacks” (p. 1). Upon infiltration of an IT network, the threat searches for a lapse in the cyber security program in order to access the OT networks that regulate CI.