Tag Archives: insider threat

A new SolarWinds report shows that 52 percent of information technology security professionals from public sector organizations say they consider untrained and careless insiders as the top threat to their agencies.

The GovCon industry is calling on the government to pursue sharing of insider threat data about cleared employees with contractors as agencies prepare to ramp up their vetting and continuous evaluation initiatives as part of the administration’s security clearance modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Friday.

A data breach at Capital One Financial compromised the personal information of more than 100M U.S. and Canadian customers and credit card applicants, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Kanav Gandhi, a product manager at Thales eSecurity, wrote in a blog post published Thursday about the key insights cybersecurity professionals can draw from the television series Game of Thrones and one of those is the need for long-term plans to protect data from threats.

A new Verizon report says cyber espionage, error by insiders and privilege misuse accounted for 72 percent of data breaches in the public sector. Verizon analyzed over 41K security incidents and more than 2K data breaches from 86 countries for the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report and found that 16 percent of breaches occurred in the public sector.

Forcepoint CEO Matt Moynahan said insider threats to organizations start with access, privilege and the threat actors’ intentions, Federal News Network reported Friday. “The definition of insider becomes very blurry with things like digital transformation [or] movement to the cloud. Attackers are getting in, identities and credentials are being stolen, and the human being has become one of the primary vectors of attack,” he told Cyber Chat host Sean Kelley.

A new SolarWinds report shows that more than 50 percent of information technology security professionals from federal civilian and defense agencies say foreign governments and careless insiders are the primary sources of IT security threats. SolarWinds said Wednesday research firm Market Connections was commissioned to poll 200 federal IT security personnel between December and January for its annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey and found that 51 percent of respondents say contractors pose greater security risks to agencies.
 

Industry stakeholders have participated in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s efforts to come up with a framework of common standards designed to help agencies assess an individual’s suitability for a security clearance, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said Tuesday …

Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has said organizations that seek to protect corporate intellectual property from insider threats should “implement a clear set of policies governing technology usage.” Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary posted Tuesday on Fortune that such policies could guide information technology teams as they work to detect …

Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, told Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller in an interview published Friday that the company is now in a “full operational mode” on a potential five-year, $1 billion cybersecurity contract with the Department of Homeland Security. He said the …

Rick Wagner, president of ManTech International’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, has said the company will leverage its cyber forensic and insider threat capabilities to support the mission of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and the 902nd military intelligence group through a potential $133 million contract. “INSCOM, like …

A new research report from Dimension Data has found that cyber attacks against the government sector doubled from seven percent in 2015 to 14 percent to join the financial sector as the top targets of attacks in 2016. The NTT Group operating firm said Monday data that its partner companies compiled across …

Enlighten IT Consulting has received a potential $3.3 million contract to help the Defense Department protect data and information networks from insider threats and external cyber vulnerabilities. DoD awarded the Cyberstrike contract in support of the implementation of the Pentagon’s Cyber Strategy that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter approved in April 2015, …

Novetta has received potential four-year, $10 million contract to help develop and sustain a system-of-systems architecture at he Defense Security Service‘s Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center. The Defense Department said Monday the SoS architecture will be built to help DITMAC reach full operating capability. Work will occur at the DSS DITMAC office in Arlington, Virginia …

Matthew Schneider, senior director for the U.S. public sector at VMware, has said government agencies and companies should adopt the software-defined networking model in order to meet the requirements of applications and manage big data workloads amid the use of cloud platforms. Schneider wrote that the implementation of an SDN …