The threats facing an organization can either originate internally through trusted employees, contractors, or temporary workers or through external threat actors attacking and penetrating your resources. Realistically, once either breaches your environment, the attack is internal even though the source of the incident is external. To that end, we need to explore how the personas for both external and internal threat actors apply to your organization.
Insider Threats
By now, most security professionals are tired of hearing about insider threats. Years ago, these attacks occurred regularly, ...