Insider Threat

1. Insider threat refers to an employee within the organization who may be unhappy with his treatment or is a spy from a competitor organization. This prejudice against the organization causes the employee to perform actions that impact the organisation's information assets. Related Term: The Human Element (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute) Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

 

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2. Although insider threat actors tend to be less frequent than their external counterparts are, we readily admit they make up some of the most interesting cases. Insider related data breaches involve threat actors with some level of trust and privilege causing a data breach through malicious intent.
Source: (Verizon, 2016)