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Digital Forensic Insider Threat (DFIT)

An innovative and proactive approach to help combat insider threats

Today, organisations face new challenges in preventing, detecting, and responding to insider threats, which are security risks that propagate from within the organisation. These can be attributed to an increasingly mobile workforce, evolving workforce dynamics, and the digital reach of technology.

Insider threat resulting from an organisation’s employees (and suppliers or vendors) continues to be one of the largest unsolved issues in cybersecurity today. While organisations are certainly aware of the issue, they rarely dedicate the resources or attention required to solve it till it is too late. Most prevention programmes fall short either by focusing exclusively on monitoring behaviour or by failing to consider cultural and privacy norms.

 

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