Category Archives: User Behavior Analytics (UBA)

Detecting Insider Threats: Leverage User Behavior Analytics

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Employees often play an unwitting role in many security incidents, from accidental data breaches to intentional malicious attacks. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t have the right protocols and processes to identify potential risks posed by their workforce. Based on a survey conducted by SANS Institute, 35% of respondents said they lack visibility into insider threats, while 30% […]

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User Behavior Analytics: What It Is and How It Advances Digital Security

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Organizations are struggling to pinpoint threats that come from real user accounts. Take insider threats, as an example. In a 2020 report, 68% of IT and security experts felt their employers were somewhat or very at risk to insider attacks. Over half (53%) said it had become at least somewhat harder to detect an insider attack […]

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Zero Trust and Insider Threats: Was Brutus the Original Bad Actor?

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Insider threats have been a problem for as long as there have been insiders. What’s changed over time? Well, for one, Brutus and his conspirators didn’t exactly leave a trail of logs and flows when they plotted against Julius Caesar and the Roman Republic. Fast forward 2,000 years, and there’s a good news/bad news update […]

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#TwitterHack: Power, Privilege and Pandemic

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On Wednesday, July 15, the Twitterverse was ablaze with what Twitter itself has described as a “coordinated social engineering attack” that was launched at around 4pm ET. The outcome of this breach was compromised Twitter accounts of many well-known people and organizations, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, former President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, […]

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Safeguarding Healthcare for the Future With Zero Trust Security

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A Zero Trust security model can help healthcare organizations provision access in a more effective manner by focusing on data, workloads and identity.

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State of the Phish: IBM X-Force Reveals Current Phishing Attack Trends

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Phishing has long been an infection vector of choice for threat actors, and for good reason — it is relatively easy, inexpensive and consistently successful.

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How Deepfakes Will Make Us Question Everything in 2020

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If anyone can claim that what they said was the result of a deepfake, how can we distinguish the truth anymore?

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How to Protect Your Organization From Evolving Phishing Attacks

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Protecting against evolving phishing attacks requires robust security awareness training for users and some help from technologies like artificial intelligence and ahead-of-threat detection.

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What Are Insider Threats and How Can You Mitigate Them?

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There are several types of insider threats that organizations should be aware of and each presents different symptoms for security teams to diagnose.

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How to Start Building an Insider Threat Program

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Sometimes it only takes one moment, one life-changing incident, to turn the most trustworthy employee into an insider threat.

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