TY - JOUR

T1 - Identifying and Mitigating Insider Threats

A1 - Probst,Christian W.

AU - Probst,Christian W.

PB - Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Organisations face many threats that coarsely can be separated in inside threats and outside threats. Threats from insiders are especially hard to counter since insiders have special knowledge and privileges. Therefore, malicious insider actions are hard to distinguish from benign actions. After discussing new definitions of insiders and insider threats, this article gives an overview of how to mitigate insider threats and discusses conflicting goals when dealing with insider threats.

AB - Organisations face many threats that coarsely can be separated in inside threats and outside threats. Threats from insiders are especially hard to counter since insiders have special knowledge and privileges. Therefore, malicious insider actions are hard to distinguish from benign actions. After discussing new definitions of insiders and insider threats, this article gives an overview of how to mitigate insider threats and discusses conflicting goals when dealing with insider threats.

KW - Insider threats

KW - Sustainable process security

KW - Organisational security

UR - http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/doi/abs/10.1524/itit.2011.0644

U2 - 10.1524/itit.2011.0644

DO - 10.1524/itit.2011.0644

JO - I T - Information Technology

JF - I T - Information Technology

SN - 1611-2776

IS - 4

VL - 53

SP - 202

EP - 206

ER -