Texas Cyber Summit

These names are normal. They come to work on-time every day. They are your top
performers. They have names similar to Edward. Edward comes to the office, does
a great job, and seems like an average analyst. He is also the most famous Insider
Threat. Joe, Mary, John and Valarie are too. Mary is a great contributor to the team.
She brings breakfast tacos to the whole office. She seems nice, someone you
would like to work with. Underneath the surface, she feels that the organization she
is working for is doing something inherently, or ethically wrong. What you didn’t
know when you hired Mary is that she would be a threat.
You didn’t know that her independence and drive would also lead to her inability to
be loyal to anyone’s interests except her own. She began working for the company
feeling as if she had a sense of belonging, until the day she realized that her
interests were diverging from the company’s. It was at this moment, she became
frustrated. She felt betrayed. Ultimately, she felt a sense of duty to correct these
actions, and so she did. Mary was an analyst who had access to all kinds of critical
information. She was cleared at your highest classification level. She became an
insider threat. Could you have known this before you hired her? We believe you can.
Creating an Insider Threat Program based on human data analytics coupled with
traditional tactics and preventive measures allows us to identify these potential
threats to our organization and our customers.