Insider Threat Prevention Strategy: Ask This;

Hi, my name is Gerard Blokdyk, as?Information Security Manager at a bank?we had to verify that all cleared employees have completed the required insider threat awareness training, making sure we knew which organization information our insider threat detection program leveraged.

Our organization had a defined insider threat management program that involved cooperation among multi disciplinary areas of our organization as human resources, IT and legal.

Your experiences may be similar to mine and you could also be dealing with questions like: how does your organization work to identify observable and reportable external cyber threats that may be linked to internal cyber insider threat activities,? or does your organization have a formal incident response plan with provisions for insider threat attacks.

How does your organization close the gap between the initial attack, discovering the insider threat actors deeds and taking action to shut down or otherwise mitigate the event?

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TLDR: Ask This;

1. How does your organization verify that all cleared employees have completed the required insider threat awareness training?

2. Which organization information does your insider threat detection program leverage?

3. Does your organization have a defined insider threat management program that involves cooperation among multi disciplinary areas of your organization as human resources, IT and legal?

4. How does your organization work to identify observable and reportable external cyber threats that may be linked to internal cyber insider threat activities?

5. Does your organization have a formal incident response plan with provisions for insider threat attacks?

6. How does your organization close the gap between the initial attack, discovering the insider threat actors deeds and taking action to shut down or otherwise mitigate the event?

7. Do your CSPs have a formalized insider threat program?

8. Aside from DLP/CASB solutions, what additional data security solutions does your organization leverage to protect against insider threats?

9. How does your organization fund and staff a program office to implement your organizations insider threat policy?

10. Does the insider threat program personnel receive regular, timely access to all relevant and credible information to identify violations, areas of concern or potential insider threat matters?

11. Can proactive insider threat detection leverage information already being collected for records management purposes, and what would be the ethical and legal fallout of approaches?

12. What administrative policies and procedures do you have in place for insider threat management?

13. How is your organization monitoring malicious or inadvertent insider threat risk caused by disgruntled or displaced employees and contractors?

14. Does your insider threat program have all the necessary components to be effective?

15. How can social and behavioral factors improve analytics for risk analysis, including operational security and insider threat detection?

16. How will insider threat awareness training best be accomplished and documented for your organization workforce?

17. Does any application have any insider threat detection and response capability?

18. Does your insider threat detection program leverage information from across your organization?

19. What does it take to build an effective insider threat program within your organization?

20. Does your organization have a program to identify and/or mitigate the insider threat?

21. Which departments within your organization participate with your insider threat related program?

22. Has your organization experienced potential issues of insider threat from current or recently separated employees, contractors, or vendors?

23. Does your organization have the appropriate controls to detect and prevent an insider attack?

24. What information type is more difficult to protect against insider threat activities?

25. Does your organization ignore the insider threat in favor of the outsider threat?

26. What relationship exists between your organizations program and the insider threat programs established by the various cleared contractors that work for your organization?

27. Does your organization have a dedicated team or department responsible for monitoring and/or responding to insider threats?

28. What preventative measures work best to disrupt the insider threat cycle before mission critical or sensitive data is compromised or leaked?

29. Do you anticipate utilizing a full time insider threat program team or a part time program team?

30. What does a security roadmap that includes insider threats look like for your organization?

31. Does security and privacy awareness training include information on recognizing and reporting indicators of insider threat?

32. Does any initiative become prone to insider threat or is it going to bring more value to mitigate it?

33. How long does it typically take your organization to mitigate and stop an insider attack?

34. How would an apparent insider threat change your response and communication procedures?

35. What role can technology now play in improving insider threat detection and response?

36. Does an insider threat program also encompass detection and investigation of inside threats?

37. Have arrangements to deal with the potential insider threat and changed control environment associated with remote working been put in place?

38. How does your organization allocate resources to mitigate or curtail insider threats?

39. How is insider threat awareness training accomplished and documented for your organizations workforce?

40. Should your organization use technical measures like restricting access to curtail the risk of insider attack?

41. How are you positioned to pursue a risk based insider threat monitoring program?

42. Do you believe your organization has invested enough to mitigate the risk of insider threats?

43. How do you position an insider threat program to your workforce?

44. How does cloud adoption complicate the insider threat, and what is your organization doing about it?

45. How effective do you consider your insider threat prevention and detection methods?

46. How do you create a culture of awareness and support to catch problems early and disrupt a possible insider threat before it ever exists?

47. Where is potentially anomalous or risky behavior associated with an insider threat reported?

48. What is the policy to thwart insider threat in your cybersecurity organizations?

Organized by Key Themes: SECURITY, DATA, RISK, INSIDER, THREAT, MANAGEMENT, PRODUCT, PROJECT, DESIGN, DEVELOP:

SECURITY:

How do you create a culture of awareness and support to catch problems early and disrupt a possible insider threat before it ever exists?

Lead application security solutions, data loss prevention solutions, insider threat solutions, enterprise vulnerability management and support business development (merger, acquisition, divestiture) security and IT solutions.?

What is the visibility and messaging put out to your organization on the insider program?

Make sure the Information Security Incident Response team is responsible for managing the detection and reporting of information security and insider threat incidents, supporting all organization Business Units.?

What auditing and tracking does your organization get when using an external cloud application?

Invest in planning, organizing and leading IT security projects related to network, system and data security, to include insider threat detection, enterprise information security reporting, auditing, as well as system risk management and mitigation.?

Is your organization protected against someone who knows your system better than anyone else?

Confirm that your design is leveraging advanced threat assessment technology and involvement in building high-level information security infrastructure, you develop adaptive solutions uniquely tailored to your (internal) customers business objectives to protect sensitive data against sophisticated threats in an increasingly complex security environment.?

What are the biggest challenges your organization faces in establishing whether an event or incident is an insider threat?

Make sure your company manage all enterprise cyber, data protection, and insider threat programs, including establishing incident response, 24x7 security operations center, and security engineering, architecture and intelligence teams.?

How do you speed up security investigations and reduce the impact of insider threats?

Guarantee your strategy performs as a member of the security team to invest in the execution of an insider threat program.?

How will you manage the risk of your hardware or software becoming unsupported?

Support the daily monitoring, escalation, and remediation of information security and insider threat events with relevant teams that support the incident response process.?

How do you use your incident response planning for more than data breaches?

Make sure your company is involved in working with Insider Threat regulations and information security reports.?

What environments, logical and geographical does your deployment need to reach/support?

Ensure you have involvement building and leading a team to Support Insider risk program including data loss prevention, email security, forensics and data collection (including cloud).?

Does your organization have a dedicated team or department responsible for monitoring and/or responding to insider threats?

Make sure the team works closely with peers responsible for Threat Management, Malware Analysis, Insider Threat, and Security Automation.?

DATA:

Are the risks associated with cloud computing actually higher than the risks your organization is facing form internal systems?

Make sure the Director, Insider Threat serves as the Insider Risk Working Group chairperson, working to govern the program, identify, prioritize and implement insider risk use cases, and coordinating across business units to ensure those responsible and accountable for data are kept consulted and informed.?

Does your organization deserve credit for trying to identify and prioritize its data?

Support log ingestion activities in partnership with application owners and analytics platform teams, run threat modelling, co-relate data and build policies to identify insider threats in critical business applications.?

Do you have a budget specifically allocated for investment in enabling technologies to reduce the insider threat?

Continue to leverage and enhance User Activity Monitoring (UAM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and SIEM technology solutions to address risk as it relates to all aspects of Insider Threat risk.?

Who will be responsible for protecting the privacy rights of the public and employees affected by the interface?

Certify your organization is responsible for Exceptions Risk Management for Insider Threat Operations as well as data movement reviews, data collection and analysis, and identification of anomalous patterns of data.?

Does your organization have policies describing how to identify and respond to at risk employees?

Safeguard that your team develops analytical models that leverage relevant data from the Insider Threat detection tools, and other applicable data sources, to identify anomalies potentially indicative of an insider threat.?

How do you define an insider threat?

Define business and technical requirements for data loss and insider threat detection and prevention solutions.?

Which technologies do you use as part of your organizations threat hunting approach?

Manage IT Security Program involving services to include cybersecurity operations, continuous monitoring, security information and event management, security architecture, security engineering, vulnerability scanning, endpoint security, security analytics, network access control, penetration testing, data forensics, security data ingestion and analysis, incident analysis, threat monitoring/hunt and security situational awareness.?

Do your CSPs have a formalized insider threat program?

Interface so that your organization is developing and analyzing data based on current and past insider threat cases and the significance of trends.?

How do you improve privilege review technology to better enable vital business practices?

Support the implementation of data collection and analysis systems to enable insider threat detection activities.?

RISK:

How are security cultures developed in your organizations that you engage with?

Develop experience working with Data Loss Prevention (DLP), insider threat detection and response, Cloud Access System Brokers (CASB), SIEM solutions, and User Behavior Analytics (UBA) to address risk as it relates to Insider Threat, sensitive data exfiltration, identity access management, and/or fraud.?

How do you create a culture of awareness and support to catch problems early and disrupt a possible insider threat before it ever exists?

Oversee that your company develops response strategies and technical support documents, summaries, reports, presentations and other designated products that help support the Insider Threat program and other organizational entities identification of team member centric risk.?

Does your program incorporate a focus on external stakeholders as third parties to include supply chain providers?

Assure your organization provides threat information and identify best practices for managing supply chain and insider risks, from economic and threat perspectives.?

What is the solution to reducing your exposure and defending against corresponding high risk insider threats?

Provide leadership and support to the Insider Threat Steering Committee to ensure the risk from Insider Threats is continually managed and reducing, if outside risk appetite.?

Do you have a good understanding of the programs your personnel are performing on?

Develop experience leading, coordinating, and performing risk assessments, including insider threat related activities.?

Is a system of perimeter controls maintained to deter or detect unauthorized introduction or removal of classified information from the facility?

Develop and maintain an insider threat risk convergence model.?

What are the main benefits of using a threat hunting platform for security analysts?

Make sure your personnel is providing tailored intelligence and insider threat risk analysis.?

Does the person of concern have problems with supervisors, management, or leadership?

Manage ownership of the intellectual property focused Insider Risk Manager Insider Threat program.?

What are the leading practices for combating insider threats, and how do ours differ?

Assure your staff has involvement in developing an IS audit strategy that reflects your organizations risk profile, regulatory/legal requirements, current threat trends, and IS industry best practices.?

How do you reign in privileged users and protect against insider threat?

Provide analytical support and/or other input to facilitate Sensitive Information Protection, Insider Risk, Employee Relations, Legal, or Human Relations efforts to protect sensitive content and confidential information.?

INSIDER:

How are you positioned to pursue a risk based insider threat monitoring program?

Provide support to create, build, implement and maintain Insider Threat use cases with risk focused user entity behavior analytics, user access monitoring tools, data loss prevention, and/or other related capabilities.?

Is there an advanced monitoring mechanism in the solution allowing to measure the potential performance bottlenecks and to give clear information about what should be done to fix the limitation?

Be sure your process is responding to, investigating, and documenting potential insider threat indicators displayed by contractors and/or organization employees.?

What approaches, if any, are currently being used for the safety and security of your organization?

Guarantee your workforce reviews information to identify anomalous behavior indicative of an insider threat, and to use detection and analysis tools in the development of a comprehensive view of the potential threat.?

Does your organization ensure all classified IS users will be trained on responsibilities and the training will include information related to the insider threat program?

Assure your workforce is managing the corporate insider threat program to include training, execution and compliance.?

Is it feasible to measure knowledge, knowledge sharing and knowledge management within your organization using the COBIT 5 framework?

Make sure your workforce works with Insider Threat committee to make sure of compliance with reporting and maintaining a safe work environment.?

Are procedures established to review classified holdings on a recurring basis for the purpose of maintaining classified inventories to the minimum required for classified operations?

Liaison so that your group provides support to CSM for establishment and maintaining of Insider Threat Program.?

What does it take to build an effective insider threat program within your organization?

Partner with internal teams to build out Insider threat related programs.?

What department in your organization should be involved in an insider threat program?

Establish that your process is involved in Counterintelligence, Insider Threat, and access control systems.?

What really needs to be determined is how the team will be structured and where it will be located?

Cultivate an enterprise program that embeds insider risk processes into your daily operations.?

How do you detect an insider threat?

Collaborate on the build and implementation of processes and technologies to detect high risk insider activities that are accidental or malicious in nature.?

THREAT:

How are guidelines going to be adhered to in your organization and how is your business going to manage the service management requirements?

Make sure the Program Manager is responsible for leading collaboration and partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and business unit leadership across the organization to guide Insider Threat inquiries, investigations, and incidents.?

How do you know if systems are trustworthy?

Guarantee your team is serving as key coordinator between multiple/cross discipline stakeholders to ensure enterprise wide integration of Insider Threat program efforts.?

Does your organization have policies and practices mandating security awareness training?

Interface so that your design is identifying and recommending process improvement methodologies and principles to optimize the Insider Threat program and implement best practices.?

Does the solution provide a supported and documented API to automate functionality, to push data into the solution?

Provide consulting support services to organization and private sector (internal) clients related to the development of insider threat programs.?

Do you supplement traditional incident focused approaches to threat discovery with an approach that feeds metadata to a pattern focused analytic?

Verify that your team is responsible for identifying and developing Insider Threat Detection Use cases focused on insider threats.?

Does your organization provide security awareness training on recognizing and reporting potential indicators of insider threat?

Guarantee your staff is collecting, analyzing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources for the purpose of documenting investigations, analyzing findings and provide Insider threat metrics.?

Does your organization ensure all classified IS users will be trained on responsibilities and the training will include information related to the insider threat program?

Trained and proficient working with data loss protection (DLP), user entity behavior analytics (UEBA), digital forensics and/or Insider Threat tools.?

Do your cleared employees, as well as yourself, know what a violation is and to whom you should report it?

Invest in the development of an Insider Threat program from the ground up, including the development of Concept of Operations and Standard Operating Procedure documents that build on (internal) clients existing acceptable use and need to know policies.?

Do the countermeasures interdict the threat during or just prior to the attack?

Be certain that your organization works with Directors on inter divisional communication for the success of compliance programs, insider threat program, quality and safety standards and business strategies.?

How does your cybersecurity program apply industry standards and best practices?

Make headway so that your team is identifying and facilitating implementation of Insider Threat program best practices.?

MANAGEMENT:

How do you integrate policy and compliance with an effective Insider Threat program?

Ensure your strategy performs data discovery, data classification, insider threat management and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tasks.?

What is the probability of a given observed sequence with respect to your model?

Make sure there is program management and collaboration across diverse stakeholders for Insider Threat programs.?

What value would user activity monitoring provide in overcoming insider threats?

Research or develop methodologies for conducting digital/electronic forensics, intrusion detection, insider threat monitoring, risk management, and incident response and remediation.?

Are your employees properly screened for clearance and need to know prior to attending classified meetings?

Coordinate with legal, privacy, human resource, and compliance internal business partners on the intention and scope of the Insider Risk Management Program.?

What is the biggest barrier to achieving the necessary agility to respond to changes in the insider threat environment?

Develop experience working on a team to implement new business programs and/or technologies and navigating change management issues.?

Does an insider threat program also encompass detection and investigation of inside threats?

Establish and mature the enterprise threat management program to include threat aggregation, analysis, modeling, hunts, and insider.?

What are an employees beliefs about the outcomes of compliance and noncompliance that influence beliefs about the overall assessment of consequences?

Assess and design security management functions as related to cyberspace.?

What are the leading practices for combating insider threats, and how do yours differ?

Verify that your organization is involved in Cloud (AWS/Azure) change management tools and practices.?

Does your organization have a defined insider threat management program that involves cooperation among multi disciplinary areas of your organization as human resources, IT and legal?

Interact and maintain highly effective partnerships with line of business management, COO team and staff.?

Does security training include how to communicate employee and management concerns regarding potential indicators of insider threat?

Ensure strong business acumen and project management expertise.?

PRODUCT:

Does your program incorporate a focus on external stakeholders as third parties to include supply chain providers?

Safeguard that your team investigations, Brand Protection, Business Risk analytics/reporting, Ecommerce Enforcement, Insider Threat, Physical Security, Product Integrity, Supply Chain Security and Technical Security Countermeasures.?

Does the solution provide a supported and documented API to automate functionality, to pull data from the solution?

Work on a support team providing support services for a Production application.?

How do you maximize the value of your content and boost visibility and control over your sensitive data, all while safeguarding your business from ransomware and insider threats?

Work with Product team to plan new features, gather requirements and propose solutions.?

How do you create a culture of awareness and support to catch problems early and disrupt a possible insider threat before it ever exists?

Be on a monthly On Call schedule to support Production environment after business hours.?

How would you characterize the effectiveness of your organization to monitor, detect, and respond to insider threats?

Make sure your process troubleshoots business and production issues.?

What information needs to be captured to perform the prioritization and to give the human analysts a good starting point?

Make headway so that your team is facilitating prioritization sessions for the product backlog.?

Does business development and human resources understand the nature of existing threats and information to be aware of that may place your organization at risk?

Help the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.?

What impacts do emerging information technologies have on the capabilities and limitations of the personnel security adjudicative guidelines to mitigate insider threats?

Apply best practice approaches and guide the product team through the process.?

How do you maximize the value of your content and boost visibility and control over your sensitive data, all while safeguarding your business from ransomware and insider threats?

Make headway so that your design ensures the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.?

Does your facility have procedures in place that will help recognize and stop a threat from within?

Maintain availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements.?

PROJECT:

How do you improve privilege review technology to better enable vital business practices?

Verify that your team is involved in RESTful and SOAP-based web services involvement working with geographically separate project teams Liaison so that your workforce is involved in unit testing and automated testing tools Guarantee your group is involved in secure coding practices involvement implementing web content management systems in a large corporate environment.?

How important are the effected components to the ICS and to operations in general?

Establish that your team provides status updates on work projects and any technical issues that present risk to project timeline with priority by selected project framework.?

Does your organization have a defined insider threat management program that involves cooperation among multi disciplinary areas of your organization as human resources, IT and legal?

Capture and disseminate information pertaining to issues and risks with contingency and mitigation plans defined by Teams and the project charter and tracked in the team repository.?

Will the number and type of users requiring access to the classified systems and networks change?

Make sure your team projects include significant business process and/or technology change.?

Do you integrate customized tenant requirements into your security incident response plans?

Disseminate information to all Team members through transmittal methods directed by your organization per the project communication plan.?

Are the numbers of clearances held to a minimum consistent with contractual requirements?

Ensure your organization manages projects from intake to delivery serving as both Business Analyst and Project Manager.?

Have arrangements to deal with the potential insider threat and changed control environment associated with remote working been put in place?

Facilitate change management activities between the project team and IT service groups.?

Do you have access to a comprehensive range of visualization and multidimensional analytics for the timely delivery of intelligence, including threat and fraud analytics?

Confirm that your process motivates project team in order to deliver project outcomes.?

What metrics do you use to measure trustworthiness without alienating employees?

Make headway so that your design informs team members of risks and issues associated with each project.?

How do you create a culture of awareness and support to catch problems early and disrupt a possible insider threat before it ever exists?

Provide project management support to the IT business area.?

DESIGN:

Are you aware of any incidents that involved the use of information found on social networking media to negatively impact your organization?

Oversee that your company is involved in insider threat analysis, mitigation and program design.?

Do you have access to a comprehensive range of visualization and multidimensional analytics for the timely delivery of intelligence, including threat and fraud analytics?

Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability and manageability Act as a key interface to your internal (internal) customers, and work closely with the delivery team to help deliver successful solution insights to your internal business leaders.?

How will you manage the risk of your hardware or software becoming unsupported?

Certify your design gathers requirements, designs and deploys network solutions to support business alignment.?

How do you synthesize social science and technical research output to respond to insider threat problems?

Safeguard that your operation analyzes business requirements and problems and drives research to design quality technical solutions.?

What are the leading practices for combating insider threats, and how do ours differ?

Manage, monitor, and operate applications Lead other team members in design and coding phases.?

Are you aware of any incidents that involved the use of information found on social networking media to negatively impact your organization?

Assure your operation is involved in design systems in large scale organizations.?

How do you balance being a great place to work with the risk of insider threat?

Oversee that your personnel is maintaining operational effectiveness and efficiency by performing research on new LAN/WAN technology, designing changes to LAN and WAN activities, developing testing procedures and implementing changes Protects LAN/WAN networks by assessing current security posture.?

What administrative policies and procedures do you have in place for insider threat management?

Manage Business Process Design understanding.?

Is open shelf or bin storage of classified information, media, or equipment approved?

Confirm that your organization is documenting requirements and system design using approved organization formats.?

Has a tcp been established to control access to all export controlled information?

Make sure your team has involvement with Design Thinking.?

DEVELOP:

What does a security roadmap that includes insider threats look like for your organization?

Develop experience developing strategy for insider threat programs to include working with various stakeholders like Privacy, Human Resources and Legal.?

What auditing and tracking does your organization get when using an external cloud application?

Safeguard that your workforce provides monitoring and analysis of insider and external threats using network security tools and custom developed scripts.?

How do you detect insider threats or non malware threats?

Develop and implement criteria to identify anomalous user behavior leading indicating insider threat activity.?

Do you have any concerns regarding security threats coming from authorised users?

Identify and develop Insider Threat Detection Use cases focused on insider risks.?

Do you conduct background investigations or currently monitor network activity?

Identify and develop Insider Threat Detection use cases and conduct Insider Threat investigations.?

What are the constructs influencing the information security policy compliance existing in extant literature?

Warrant that your strategy provides guidance on business requirements to team members in developing the application.?

What information type is more difficult to protect against insider threat activities?

Ensure your comprehensive solution enables CIOs and CSOs develop viable defensive positions to protect organization assets from insider threats.?

What percentage of your IT budget are you currently spending for prevention and detection of insider incidents or attacks?

Make sure the Technical Business Analyst is responsible for analysis of (internal) client opportunities, validation of opportunities and use cases, develop documented analysis and recommend best practice solutions to Automation Product Managers for automation solutioning.?

How may an insider first try to remove or disclose protected information from your organization?

Conduct open source research about industry trends and developments in protecting IP and countering Insider Threats.?

How are security cultures developed in your organization and your organizations that you engage with?

Ensure your workforce works with team to identify potential risks, develop contingency plans.