Insider Threats

Security and ethical employees will continue to be a vital aspect of ensuring the success of an organization. There will always be a need for ethical IT security professional as hackers will continue to force organizations to make adjustments in their business models to protect their employees, data and customers. Many organizations and managers believe application security requires simply installing a perimeter firewall, or taking a few configuration measures to prevent applications or operating systems from being attacked. This is a risky misconception. By understanding threats and respect impacts, organizations will be equipped to maintain confidentiality, availability and

As such, our company’s people resources pose the greatest risk for security breach. Our way to help mitigate risk in this area is to keep communication lines open in this area and to continually mandate security knowledge training, with mandatory updates on a regular basis. When the employees are informed of company policy when facing a security matter, they are better equipped to act in the best or right way. In this way knowledge is power – or at least empowerment to act in the best interest of the company’s information security.

A single insider could steal secrets from critical infrastructures or leave them vulnerable to a future hack, which could have residual effects for years, such as the company Target and its reputation after the company was hacked. Further, insiders like Edward Snowden have set back American national security for years to come, by exposing secret security practices to the world. The government proposed in S.3414, to conduct background checks, focus on employee training, and assure that the necessary management are enlisted. These steps might stop the insider threat, but are measures to help reduce the threat. The benefits would also lead to better productivity and ensure the right employees are emplace to meet the industry standards and comply with policy. A new proposed bill should incorporate this feature within the government and be an option within privately owned critical infrastructures with incentives if guidance is

Despite the presence of network security devices such as firewalls and other security appliances, today's corporate networks are still vulnerable to both internal and external attacks by hackers intent on creating havoc. By proactively

CIO is well aware of the preventive measures taken against the external threats and has switched the focus to the internal threats. Detection and prevention of internal attack is equally important to the external attacks in the network. Most networks are vulnerable to betrayal from within do to the assumption that everyone who is inside the

Risk management includes the “overall decision-making process of identifying threats and vulnerabilities and their potential impacts, determining the costs to mitigate such events, and deciding what actions are cost effective to take to control these risks” (Conklin et al, 2012, pg. 678). For the proper development of risk management techniques, every person at every level of the organization, especially those involved in the Information Security (IS) department “must be actively involved in the following activities:

Threat modeling is the process of optimizing an organizations’ security of their network by finding vulnerabilities in that system, and then deploying countermeasures to protect against those threats should they happen in the future. If a company wants to know what vulnerabilities they may have then threat modeling is an excellent way of determining these threats. An individual threat is when an event occurs that has a negative impact on an organization’s daily operations. (Rouse, 2006). These negative impacts can manifest themselves in many ways from damaging the reputation of that organization to interrupting the functions of that organization. These threats can be in the form of destruction or stealing sensitive data, cracking of weak passwords, malware, phishing, or other scams and frauds. The goal of this paper is to address how the organizations code of ethics and security policies apply, what specific security policies can be deployed, and to identify the impact of asset security standards and governance. I chose Northrop Grumman as the focus of my paper

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how applying the Malcolm Baldrige framework redefines, expands, and improves an organization as a whole (Shook). Throughout this paper we will discuss the Malcolm Baldrige Award and its framework, also in regards to its 2014 recipient Hill Country Memorial Hospital.

When it comes to one's social class, there are many things that provide symbolic meaning, even if people do not always realize it. One of those meanings is where one goes to school. The two main kinds of schooling, for K-12 schools, are public and private, although charter schools are starting to become more popular. If someone goes to a public school, it may not necessary meaning that they are part of a lower class, but to some people that go to private schools, it may look that way (People Like Us). Some private schools can have tuition fees of $20,000+ a year.

Adolescence is a milestone marking the development of physical, physiological and biological psychology from the children who move transition to develop and maturation stages with significant changes affecting later life. According to the first article "The Brain Name: 6 things to know" by National Institute of Mental Health talks about the size of the brain reaches the maximum size, the adolescent's brain is ready to learn, and the amount of sleeping time the adolescence will need. The second article "Inside the teenager Brain" by Judith Newman mentions that teenagers often forget things quickly, they are not responsible, and are unorganized. The author also talks about the ways to overcome these problems. When asked about their children's adolescence, most parents are both happy and angry because their children are uninterested in and do not worry about their lives.

In order to diminish both security and privacy risks to organizations, measures need to be taken to combat risks throughout the various stages of the threat’s life cycle. Specific processes must be implemented to identify threats, procedures to follow when the attack occurs, and finally methods to recover from the attack (Houlding, 2011).

When cybersecurity policy is discussed the topics often focus on technology, corporate culture, and security awareness. The success of an organization in defending its most valuable asset, data, depends on the proper implementation of several security practices. Ensuring that the “human aspect” of cyber security is addressed is vital, for the culture of an organization can greatly impact both the security posture and defense of information networks.

Insider threats are not a new phenomenon in the history of the world or the United States. Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese General and author of the famous treatise The Art of War, believed that obtaining information through the use of spies made certain “great achievements.” The use of spies continued in from the Roman Empire to the strategic victories in World War II (Zurcher, 2013). In the United States, the mainstream media popularized spying with figures like James Bond, Jack Ryan, and Simon Templar. During the Cold War, 1985 was dubbed the “Year of the Spy” when twelve individuals were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for spying. John Anthony Walker Jr., a Navy Warrant Officer and communications specialist worked for the Soviet Union; Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy’s Anti-Terrorist Alert Center worked for Israel; Sharon Scranage, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) desk clerk in Ghana and worked for Ghana; Larry Chin, a Chinese language translator/intelligence officer for the CIA worked for China; and Ronald Pelton, a communications specialist for the National Security Agency (NSA) worked for the Soviet Union; are a few examples of the individuals arrested (Federal Bureau of Investigation, n.d.). Each of these individuals worked within the US Defense and Intelligence communities and exposed national security secrets.

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Network intrusion may be a difficult task to complete with advances in network security, but with evolving technology and the availability of information on the Internet, network intrusion prevention may be the harder task. It was mentioned above that one must get to know his enemy before the attack; the same can be said if the roles are switched and one is on the defense. To obtain and maintain network security, motives for network intrusion must be analyzed. Take for example the attack that was conducted on the Office of Personnel Management which acts as the United States Government 's Human Resources department. On June 4th, 2015, the Office of Personnel Management disclosed a statement saying “Personnel data, including personally