The Return of Hacktivism – The Insider
summary
Claims that 30% of breaches trace to insiders and that 63% of departing employees admit taking data, citing IDC’s “five years” acceleration of collaboration adoption. Shows concrete cases: Tesla IP exfil after a promotion denial, Shopify staff leaking transaction records, Code42 finding senior laptops auto‑syncing to personal iCloud, plus Twitter and State Department hacktivist edits. Argues DLP is ineffective and recommends using endpoint/email/cloud logs to score employee risk and apply zero trust with risk reputation controls.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:28What is Insider Risk
- 5:44How Insider Risk Has Changed
- 13:50Recent Cases
- 19:55Employee Risk
- 24:30The Next Mile
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