Insider Risk Management
An Essential Step in Mitigating Risk
Let’s Evolve Your Insider Risk Program
At, it' core, insider risk is centered around people, their behaviors, and what risks apply to your organization. Our holistic approach to mitigating those risks enables your organization to proactively identify anomalous behaviors, correlate them across physical and virtual contexts, and visualize those behaviors in valuable, action-oriented ways.
As insider risk programs become increasingly important in organizations of all sizes, it is essential to ensure that your program is up-to-date and effective. Let’s take a look at how you can evolve your insider risk program and stay ahead of the curve.
1. Define your insider risk objectives: Take the time to define the goals of your insider risk program. Make sure all stakeholders are aware of the objectives and understand the importance of reaching them.
2. Implement policies and procedures: Establish policies and procedures that promote secure practices and limit the potential for insider risks. Ensure that all employees are aware of these policies, and take the time to regularly review and update them as necessary.
3. Invest in technology: Invest in technology that can help you to identify and monitor potential insider risks. Leverage tools such as user and entity behavior analytics, access control, and data loss prevention to proactively detect any suspicious activity.
4. Conduct regular assessments: Regularly assess the effectiveness of your insider risk program. Make sure you are regularly reviewing the policies and procedures in place and that all stakeholders are aware of their roles in mitigating insider risks.
5. Foster a culture of security: Create an environment where security is the priority. Encourage employees to take security seriously and to report any suspicious activities.
By taking the time to evolve your insider risk program, you can ensure that you are staying ahead of the curve and protecting your organization from any potential threats.
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Limited visibility. Fewer than 20% of enterprises have an insider risk management program. Instead, most organizations focus on external threats and fail to monitor authorized users or have limited data fidelity to support insider use cases.
- Narrow focus. Organizations with an insider risk program frequently focus on data loss or technology only, forgetting the broader set of risks that insiders can uniquely pose to an organization.
- Reactive, not proactive. While many organizations have alerting for technical control violations, most have opportunities to improve organizational controls to prevent insider activities from even occurring.
Cost of data loss. Risk management insider threats account for more than half of all data losses. Total insider risk costs have jumped 31%, from $8.76 million in 2018 to $11.45 million in 2020.*
Employee negligence. Many employees don’t fully understand policies, laws and regulations related to their work and how their organizations can be damaged by carelessness.
Malicious insiders. Frequently the most harmful, if successful, malicious insiders have in-depth knowledge of an organization’s security posture and know how to take advantage of its vulnerabilities.
Get Ahead of Your Insider Risks
Insider risks can have devastating impacts on an organization's security and reputation. To get ahead of these risks, organizations should take the following steps:
1. Establish clear policies and procedures around access to sensitive information. Make sure that employees understand the importance of keeping confidential data secure and that they know what data is considered sensitive.
2. Implement and enforce technical controls, such as multi-factor authentication, to protect access to critical systems and data.
3. Monitor user activity for suspicious and anomalous behavior. Use tools such as user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to detect and respond to potential insider threats.
4. Educate employees on cybersecurity best practices and the risks associated with insider threats.
5. Invest in identity and access management solutions to minimize the risk of unauthorized access.
6. Develop a process for responding to potential insider threats. Include steps such as conducting a risk assessment, limiting access to sensitive data, and suspending user accounts.
By taking these proactive steps, organizations can protect their data and reputation from the threat of insider risks.
It’s time to shift from a siloed perspective and stop thinking, “Technology can solve this.” How?
AVIH helps you proactively mitigate insider incidents and identify risks to minimize damage to your organization. We’ll educate, prepare, and arm you to prevent, detect, respond, and recover to threats quickly and effectively. We help you from the development stages of a program through the continuous improvement of your mature program.
AVIH's insider risk management framework allows you to:
•Govern your insider risk program
•Protect your data, assets and people
•Detect anomalous or risky behavior
•Respond to potential incidents and recover quickly and effectively
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Our insider risk management framework includes developing an intentional culture focusing on supporting your workforce through challenging personal and professional events. You’ll establish employee programs that illustrate workforce value, with an overall goal of reducing insider activity risk.
Execute a Holistic Insider Risk Program
Partner with AVIH to develop and manage a successful insider risk program. We help our clients:
Bring a customized data governance program into focus with AVIH.
You get a comprehensive business-aligned data management solution while reducing costs through tech consolidation, reducing risk by discovering and managing what is really happening and reducing your reliance on scarce data, IT and security skills.
By identifying potentially risky behavioral patterns via on-premise
As organizations lean more heavily on suppliers and partners, their cybersecurity relies on measures put in place by third parties. A comprehensive third-party risk management plan can help reduce risks to a business-acceptable level
through continuous assessment and mitigation.
Cloud, and enriching data sources, AVIH’s Insider Risk Data Fabric enables you to proactively understand the inherent risk to your organization and optimize your technology landscape.
Solve your talent gap – Bring in the experts to solve your pressing infrastructure challenges now and plan for the future.
Then we help corral your data issues. Our data fabric solution gives a programmatic, technology-agnostic approach to increase the value of your data. Our integrated technology bundle, paired with service enablement, helps you deploy, configure and run a resilient data management solution.
With a secure, sustainable data framework and governance model to drive data value
Organizations are struggling with three key areas in the current climate:
Lack of Risk/Data Governance
Some organizations struggle to get their minds around where their data is, how it’s protected, who can get at it and how to keep steady footing.
Volume and Velocity of Change
Combine the lack of risk/data governance challenges with concerns about cloud (including moving data there and back again)
Difficulty Articulating Health
Communicating the state of your security isn’t always easy, even for security teams. It’s important to make it understandable for business leaders
We assess and advise.
We architect and deploy. We manage and optimize. Where other providers have finite capabilities, we have this incredible vantage point where we can forecast and cover the full breadth of your cybersecurity program – we are a true extension of your internal cybersecurity team.
It’s like remodeling your home. Hundreds of moving pieces require constant attention; is your electrician talking to your plumber? Do you have the right permits?
We architect and deploy.
We manage and optimize. Where other providers have finite capabilities, we have this incredible vantage point where we can forecast and cover the full breadth of your cybersecurity program – we are a true extension of your internal cybersecurity team.
It’s like remodeling your home. Hundreds of moving pieces require constant attention; is your electrician talking to your plumber? Do you have the right permits?