Adapting to Evolving Threats and the Ongoing Challenge of Human Behavior

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Presented at CIOVisionsCybersecuritySummit 2019 by

Meerah Rajavel

It is not a matter of if but when attackers are coming in the door, and a company’s own employees will most often be the portal to entry. Whether it is due to poor cyber hygiene, stolen credentials and employee impersonation, or malicious employees seeking to harm the business, insider threat poses one of the greatest cybersecurity challenges companies face today. And while employees can be a company’s weakest link in cybersecurity, they can also represent its strongest first line of defense.To date, the security industry hasn’t spent a lot of time thinking about security through a human-focused lens. However, in understanding human behavior on a network, security teams can more quickly identify what is anomalous behavior and, most importantly, which digital identities are actual employees versus digital doppelgangers. Shutting down the theft of critical IP before it leaves the network is the modern security landscape we must address today.