Risk management is a term bandied about by a lot of experts. It’s critically important, of course, but it is also a catch-all for security terms that may not seem to apply directly to immediate, regulatory security.
So, when insider threats come up, it becomes challenging to parse out how security and risk help address the issue. Here, we will discuss how simple approaches to risk management can start to address insider threats.
Discussions about security and compliance disproportionately focus on businesses and enterprises, precisely because these organizations serve as central repositories for critical industrial or consumer information. Accordingly, regulations and best practices are often tied to securing this infrastructure, with consumers getting little to no attention.
However, the reality of modern cybersecurity threats is that almost all major security breaches are related in one way or another to social engineering–that is, the manipulation of people to breach data systems. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem like it is changing any time soon.
Risk management is emerging as a necessary practice for large enterprise businesses and SMBs alike. It isn’t the case that you can simply plug into a cloud provider, operate a few servers on-prem and install firewall and malware protection to call it a day. Risk management is a real process that requires insights into your systems and their operations, and practices like penetration testing and vulnerability scanning can help with that process.