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What Does an Insider Threat Analyst Do?

Learn about what an insider threat analyst does, along with how they affect existing procedures, policies, and protection layers in organizations in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.
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The Early Indicators of an Insider Threat

Whether malicious or negligent, insider threats pose serious security problems for organizations. Forrester Senior Security Analyst Joseph Blankenship offers some insight into common early indicators of an insider threat.
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Why Your Employees are a Bigger Threat than Hackers

Global cybercrime costs could reach $2 trillion by 2019. That’s up 3X from 2015, which was only a paltry $500 billion by comparison. Surprisingly, though, hackers should be the least of your worries.
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Data Protection: Knowing is Half the Battle

Part two in our blog series on The Definitive Guide to Data Classification discusses the growing data deluge, what analysts are saying about security strategy, and how classification can bring order to your digital world.
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Getting Started with Data Classification

Welcome to the first in a series highlighting our latest eBook, The Definitive Guide to Data Classification. This post focuses on understanding the basics of data classification and dispels some of the myths from 1st generation classification products.Successfully protecting your enterprise’s digital data can be a tall task; what if there were a simple way to make that easier? A method that...
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The Evolution of an Insider Threat: How a Business Analyst Turned into a Rogue Hacker

The Advanced Threat & Analysis Center (ATAC) team here at Digital Guardian are on high alert for any suspicious activity that is generated from our customer environments through our Managed Service offering. Most times we’ll detect external cyber-attacks and/or intrusions, however recently we came across a rather interesting finding that was almost too good not too share with our readers.
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ATF Official Caught Leaking Employee Data

CNN reports that an executive at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was sending personnel data to a personal email account.