Human Behavior, Insider Threat, and Awareness: An Empirical Study of Insider Threat Behavior
Abstract
According to the FBIii, the increasing value of proprietary information and spread of enabling technologies has increased the threat posed by malicious insiders stealing information. They estimate that billions of dollars are lost by companies every year to global competitors. The problems that insiders can pose to an organization have become of greater concern and a focus of research. We were interested in better understanding the information-use behavior of malicious insiders, whom we defined as those insiders who leverage their assigned privileges to gather sensitive or proprietary information. Keep mind that an insider may be an employee, contractor, vendor, partner, or even a visitor who is provided internal access privileges. We have all seen in the media an abundance of anecdotes from health care, automobile, and financial institutions revealing some details of information theft by insiders. Although these anecdotes are interesting, they do not help us understand how the targeted organizations could have spotted the unlawful insiders before they were able to do harm.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 31, 2009
- Accession Number
- AD1108413
Entities
People
- Brad Stephenson
- Deanna D. Caputo
- Greg Stephens
- Minna Kim
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation