From the course: Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering
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Preventing insider attacks
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering
Preventing insider attacks
- [Presenter] Organization spend a large portion of their security budget on protecting from external attacks such as phishing attacks, malware, botnets and root kits. However, current and former employees pose the greatest cybersecurity threat to an organization. An insider is someone on the inside of an organization such as an employee, a subcontractor or intern. An insider is more trusted. And once authenticated has access to company assets and network and can generally move freely about the building. while an insider attack many times attempts to try and cause harm or damage to a system, insider attacks are not always malicious. Attacks can include making a mistake. For example, deleting an essential folder. Circumventing security measures in order to complete a task. For example, asking someone to let you in because you forgot your key card or changing the integrity of a system to get it to do something more useful such…
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