Insider threats are more than just a negative aspect of running a business. Whether you run a residential complex, community center, or non-profit group – your online information could be vulnerable to attacks from inside your organization.

Using the right protective software is often any brand’s best barrier against unauthorized users across the board.

Check out some of the key ways the tech sphere is helping organizations protect their data from insider threats.

Online Shopping Transactions

Every time a monetary transaction is conducted digitally, both parties risk infiltration from the network, device, or even the consumer’s credit card data. If you run a business plan that requires money to move across your proprietary network or devices, it’s important to apply the highest level of protection.

Using end-to-end data encryption is critical to reduce this risk. Comprehensive online security and monitoring programs offer this built-in service, in addition to other methods of secondary authentication.

No matter how small, any transaction can leave financial and personal information vulnerable to falling into the wrong hands. Using secure cloud-based processing apps and storage accounts is just one way to prevent this costly risk.

Physical Property Theft

Data loss isn’t just a digital phenomenon. By physically stealing corporate devices, employees can gain access to company trade secrets, donor details, financials, and more. Using the right tools and services can help you keep track of every device on your network.

Security software that includes remote GPS tracking and boundary alerts can help managers ensure that all devices are where they’re supposed to be. If all laptops need to stay in the office, for example, users can lock all devices remotely once they’re out of the set boundary area.

If employees and partners understand that all devices are trackable, they will be far less likely to risk getting caught.

Shadow IT Prevention

It’s possible for users to install unauthorized software and systems that aren’t easily traceable by corporate IT departments. This is called shadow IT, and it poses a major risk to growing organizations.

Shadow IT can be used to siphon company information, collect payment data, share files, and more. Catching these programs before they infect your entire network is key to preventing a costly data breach.

Sometimes, employees can upload company information into shadow IT platforms unknowingly. This is a common result of lack of cyber education, and oversight on part of the employer.

Regularly implementing data and IT training to keep staff abreast of online safety measures is one way many organizations prevent shadow IT from infiltrating their devices. Additionally, keeping all company devices up-to-date on data security software and system updates can keep online accounts protected.

Computer Monitoring Systems

When you’re using corporate-owned equipment, knowing how those devices are being used can prevent internal data loss and compromisation.

Using device monitoring as an insider threat program is a great first line of defense against internal information loss.

Additionally, internal investigations become much easier when claims can be easily supported by concrete, objective evidence. Since monitoring systems are always working in the background, they’re able to instantly notify managers and users in the event of abnormal online activities.

Using AI-enabled machine learning and secure data management, insider threat detection software uses:

• Website activity tracking
• Email recording
• File and document tracking
• Network activity
• Keystroke logging
• Application activity

By integrating monitoring software into all of your corporate devices, you can ensure that all online actions are being tracked and analyzed to prevent internal data loss and theft of information.

External threats like infected links and viruses make the headlines on a regular basis, but intentional and unintentional internal data loss is also a major threat. Just one breach could put financial information, trade secrets, and identifying data at risk of exposure.

Protecting your data starts by educating internal teams and ensuring that all company equipment is appropriately outfitted against cyber threats. These are the primary defenses private, public, and non-profit organizations are using to keep their information safe from the inside.

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