Insider Threat Detection
Detecting insider threats is often time-consuming, complex, and resource-intensive. Cyber deception offers a proactive insider threat solution by embedding traps and misleading information within an enterprise network to detect, confuse, and deter attackers, including malicious insiders. This technique excels in its ability to discreetly uncover the actions of malicious insiders, providing a high-fidelity method for insider threat mitigation.
Unintential. Or neglignet, Anybody who inadvertently leas corporate secrets or important data.
Intentional. Malicious insiders abuse their trusted access to systems. Think unhappy departing employees.
Other. Collusive insider threats assist external attackers from within, while Third-party insiders misuse trusted vendor status and access.
Common Insider Threat Activities include data exfiltration, and soure code leakage aiming to disrupt business processes and workflows and damage the organization’s reputation
Behavior-based detection alone isn’t enough.
Traditional solutions have gaps in their detection capabilities. Insider threat detection approaches have been traditionally focused on anomaly and behavior-based detection. These solutions have associated gaps:
- Privileged insiders leverage their trusted access to exfiltrate sensitive data
- Insiders leverage encrypted communication channels to evade traditional detection
- Insiders stay under the radar by performing slow offensive actions
- Insiders clear evidence by deleting logs
Enhanced Detection Capabilities:
- Continuously monitor activity against strategically placed traps, capturing crucial and irrefutable data on insider threat activities in real-time.
- Direct visibility into unauthorized access attempts by embedding honeytokens into identity stores, data repositories, or SaaS apps provides
Non-Disruptive to Operations:
- Integrates seamlessly without interfering with normal business processes.
- Targets specifically crafted scenarios, ensuring smooth workflow continuity.
Strategic and Tactical Advantages:
- Enhances defense-in-depth strategies by adding an additional layer of security.
- Deploys believable deceptions, such as honeytokens and credential bait, to confuse and expose insiders.
Proactive Threat Management:
- Diverts malicious insiders away from critical assets, providing valuable time for security teams to respond and isolate threats effectively.
- Generates highly reliable alerts, significantly reducing false positives and alert volume, improving the efficiency of security operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Insider threats are individuals within an organization who, intentionally or unintentionally, misuse their access to cause harm. This can lead to significant consequences, including data breaches, financial losses, and damage to the organization’s reputation. These threats are particularly concerning because insiders have direct access to sensitive information and systems, making it easier for them to carry out their activities unnoticed.
Traditional security solutions are insufficient for detecting insider threats because they rely on signature and behavior-based detection methods. While these methods can identify unusual activities, they often miss the context-specific nuances of insider threats. In addition, traditional approaches can produce numerous false positives, overwhelming security teams and leading to alert fatigue.
Cyber deception is agnostic to the specific tactics, techniques, and procedures that a threat uses. When it comes to detecting insider threats, cyber deception does not have the limitations of signature and behavior-based detection solutions.
