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Insider Risk

What is Insider Risk?

The potential for current or former employees, contractors, or partners to intentionally or accidentally compromise organizational security.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as insider risk. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on insider risk

Requirements naming insider risk across 5 standards, quoted from the control text.

Lloyds MS11.13 Security Awareness and Insider Risk - mandatory annual cyber security awareness training for all personnel + Senior Manager Function holders + Board + role-based deep training for IT + security + claims handlers + underwriters + actuaries + fina...

LLOYDS-MS11-Security-Awareness-Insider-Risk-Penetration-Testing-Independent-Assurance-MS11-13-16 · Lloyds MS11 Security Awareness + Insider Risk + Pen Testing + Assurance + MS11.13-16

Conduct background screening for personnel with access to treatment and SCADA systems and monitor for insider risk.

AWWA-G430-14 · Personnel Security and Insider Threat

Address the human element through security awareness, role-based training for operators and engineers, and policies that reduce social-engineering and insider risk in the control environment.

CISA-ICS-DID-29 · The Human Element (Awareness and Training)

FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer. SCOPE: building cybersecurity capacity in the constituency + the broader community through awareness + training + exercises + advisory.

FIRST-CSIRTF-SA5-KnowledgeTransfer · Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer (Awareness, Training, Exercises, Advisory)

Entities must ensure their personnel are suitable to access Australian Government resources and continue to meet this requirement throughout their engagement, with controls for ongoing suitability and insider risk.

PSPF-2024-OUTCOME-3 · Personnel Security Outcome

Questions people ask about insider risk

What is Insider Risk?
The potential for current or former employees, contractors, or partners to intentionally or accidentally compromise organizational security.
Why is Insider Risk important for compliance?
Insider Risk is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding insider risk helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Insider Risk?
Insider Risk appears in the requirement text of Lloyd's Minimum Standards - Cyber Security, AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association), CISA Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Guidance, FIRST CSIRT Services Framework and Standards, Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) Release 2024. Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Insider Risk?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how insider risk applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Insider Risk applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.