Comment: The big risk to your systems may not come from outside

摘要

The insider threat represents one of the greatest challenges to businesses trying to stave off a constant barrage of cybersecurity attacks. CYBERCRIMINALS are no longer mere teenagers programming a virus here and there in their own time. Cybercrime has become an industry, one that is ingenious when it comes to exploiting human weaknesses. Cybercriminals often use insiders as part of their malicious 'toolset', to help breach the perimeter of an organisation and perpetrate their crimes. Research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has found that 28 per cent of all cyber attacks and 38 per cent of targeted attacks now involve malicious activity by insiders.