From: GCN
Agencies are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to root out fraud, but those aren’t the only tools being used to spot and control anomalous behavior. New identity security tools are emerging to help enterprises that might be victimized in fraud schemes enabled by insiders or attackers using insider credentials. Those users have been at the center of several recent high-profile attacks. Their privileges were exploited as the result of sophisticated spear-phishing attacks, including the one on health insurer Anthem earlier this year in which 80 million records were stolen.
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“The concept of continuous monitoring is what everyone is now waking up to,” InfoZen CEO Raj Ananthanpillai said. An individual whose security status is not updated “can do significant damage in 10 years. If you had alerts set up saying, ‘If anything in these categories happens to that individual,’ you could investigate and take preemptive action.”
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