Insider Threat: A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within

CHAPTER 5: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON INSIDER THREAT

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. – *Dave Sitek⁸³

The perspective about how to approach data protection varies across the globe. This is a result of a combination of regulatory and legal controls, as well as cultural differences.

Globalization has added a new dynamic to the insider threat. In a global operational environment, organizations must expand inside access and knowledge of their internal operations to a new population that may have a different perspective on insider behavior, and who are much less verifiable. Employees in other countries may be faced with a conflict between cultural and national allegiances and the corporate values and priorities. ...