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Nov
18

Insider Threat: The Domestic Cyber Terrorist

From: DarkReading

It is dangerously naive for business and government leaders to dismiss the risk of radicalized privileged users inside our critical industries.

John Moynihan

Global intelligence agencies agree that adversaries of the United States are planning cyber campaigns designed to inflict lasting damage upon the nation’s critical infrastructure, disrupt our economy, and spread societal chaos. Although many anticipate that these campaigns will be launched from abroad, this perspective is dangerously naive.

Having spent the past 20 years detecting insider malice, I have a message for our leaders: Anticipate that these attacks may not originate from the territories of rogue nation states or the enclaves of violent extremists, but from inside of the targeted organizations.

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