By Milica D. Djekic
According to a definition, the insider threats are that potential of individual to misuse his authorized or unauthorized access to some community in order to affect so in the quite negative manner. The insider threats are usually correlated with the cyber security, because the majority of operations in the developed economies would seek from their staffs to use computers, internet and mobile technologies. As it’s well-known, the insider threats could be unintentional and malicious by their nature. The unintentional insider threats are those community’s members who would so carelessly release so confidential information. They would not expect any financial reward for such an action and they would not get correlated with any malicious actor’s group. On the other hand, there would be the real malicious actors getting the part of some enterprise who would do everything and anything to cause harm to their employer. These folks would get paid for their arrangement and they would commonly get a support from some organized crime or terrorist group. So, if we talk about this sort of crime schemes, it’s important to mention that such a case would need the detailed investigation, because those guys would so frequently deal as a team being organized at operational, tactical and strategic levels.
At the beginning, we could try to review how cyber technologies could get misused in order to make some way of advantage to the malicious actors being the part of some organization. The fact is that the entire globe is getting internetized and there are the billions of the world’s network users on the planet. These people would deal with their accounts, multimedia platforms, social media and so on. In such a case, it’s getting clear that anyone gaining the access to some company’s infrastructure could attempt to share his privileges with someone being outside of that community. That’s how the organized crime and even terrorism enter the legal system. The good question here would be what their aims in such a case are. We can say that their goal could be to weaken some business and if we observe that from the quite wider perspective – if you make one business collapses, you could do so with many of them applying such a criminality scenario…Click here to read full article.
