Insider Risk
What is Insider Risk?
The potential for current or former employees, contractors, or partners to intentionally or accidentally compromise organizational security.
Terms that appear alongside insider risk
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as insider risk. The number is how many controls name both.
- security awareness 3 shared controls
- social engineering 2 shared controls
- phishing 2 shared controls
- insider threat 2 shared controls
- security awareness training 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- purple team 2 shared controls
- red team 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern insider risk
What the standards actually require on insider risk
Requirements naming insider risk across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Providers must manage the people responsible for security appropriately, in particular by establishing and regularly reviewing a security policy that includes incident management at varying severities, a standard way of categorising incidents, channels for rep...
uk-telecommunications-security-act-2021::r10 · reg.10 Govern security from board level: policy, incident categorisation, risk reporting, post-incident review and insider risk →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) →Questions people ask about insider risk
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