Internal Threats and Countermeasures

Cyber-attacks  offer the ability to obliterate and interrupt an organization’s  communication channels, security data center and facility remotely.  Indeed, private and public organizations are often interlinked; hence,  data breaches effect damaging impact on the organization’s confidence in  protecting the economy and innocent citizens.   Today, there is a  crisis about organizations’ inability to resolve the age-old problem of  how to control the abuse of trust and confidence given to authorized  officials  to freely logon onto the organization’s system, Many such  officials , turn around to betray the organization  by committing  cybercrimes. Vulnerability  stems from interactions and communications among several system  components and categorized as deficiency, weakness and security cavity  on network data center. To  what extent do internal threats constitute a key factor against any  organization’s ability to battle insider threats caused by people who  abuse assigned privilege? What is the most effective mechanism for organizations to combat internal threats? Why  should disgruntled employees must be trained on the danger of throwing  wastepaper and electronic media in a bin within and outside the  facility?