Examines the risks posed by insider threats, including malicious employees, negligent staff, and compromised credentials. Articles cover detection techniques, behavioral indicators, monitoring tools, security policies, and training programs that help organizations identify and mitigate threats originating from within.
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The Threat Already Inside Your Building In 2022, a former Twitter employee was convicted of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, accessing the personal data of thousands of users — including dissidents — using nothing more than his legitimate employee credentials. No malware. No phishing email. Just a trusted insider with access
The Threat Already Inside Your Network In 2023, Tesla disclosed that two former employees had leaked the personal data of more than 75,000 workers to a German news outlet. It wasn't a sophisticated hack. It wasn't a nation-state threat actor. It was people who already
In January 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice charged a former Google engineer with stealing proprietary AI trade secrets while secretly working for two China-based companies. He had access for years. He passed background checks. He was a trusted employee. And that's exactly the point — the most
The Threat Already Inside Your Firewall In January 2025, a former employee of a U.S. infrastructure firm was charged with attempting to sabotage water treatment systems — months after being terminated. His credentials were never revoked. The damage was caught, but barely. This isn't an edge case. It&
The Threat That Already Has a Badge and a Password In January 2023, the FBI arrested a former GE employee and a collaborator for stealing trade secrets related to turbine technology — a scheme that had been running for years. The insider had legitimate access the entire time. No firewall stopped
In July 2020, a 17-year-old in Florida convinced a Twitter employee to hand over internal credentials. Within hours, threat actors had hijacked 130 high-profile accounts — including those of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple — and used them to run a Bitcoin scam. The breach didn't start with a
The Threat Already Inside Your Building In January 2023, the FBI arrested a former GE Aviation employee who had spent years downloading thousands of proprietary turbine technology files and transferring trade secrets to a competing business in China. The insider had legitimate access. He passed every background check. He sat
