Insider Threat Management
Intelligent detection of insider threats in real time
Insider threat detection can be especially difficult—and the most dangerous—because password-protected users can easily reconfigure data for the whole system. Insider threat prevention software is designed to track systems for unusual or malicious behavior originating from password-protected user accounts.
SolarWinds® Security Event Manager (SEM) is built to monitor security data log events to help detect security threats in real time. With an intuitive interface, color-coded graphics, and customizable report screens, SEM is a comprehensive security data log system designed to help you monitor for and address insider threats faster.
Built-in alerts keep you in the loop
SolarWinds SEM is designed to automatically correlate log data to help detect potential insider threats in your security data logs. You can also configure custom alerts to notify you when log data triggers certain rules.
Additionally, you can set alerts to be delivered straight to your inbox or mobile device. You can also set tiered alerts for different levels of urgency, helping you quickly understand exactly how serious an issue may be. SEM’s state-of-the-art forensic capabilities help you focus on the security threats that matter the most.
Automatic incident response to insider threats
SolarWinds SEM is designed to help users more easily identify what regular, predictable system log activity looks like. With this historical baseline, the tool can more accurately flag potentially malicious log activity.
When insider threats pose a critical threat, SEM supports automatic incident response. SEM has the capability to disable users, log off users, eject suspicious USB devices, and reconfigure users’ security settings, so time-sensitive threats can be successfully mitigated.
What is insider threat management?
Insider threats, also known as “privilege threats,” occur when someone with malicious intent gains access to password-protected system data. This person may be an employee, but not necessarily—anyone with authorized credentials, including business partners or vendors, can pose an insider threat.
Log data is the key to flagging suspicious activity from credentialed users. Insider threat management involves monitoring log data to quickly detect anomalies that could signal malicious or improper activity.
Organizations can take some basic safeguards to prevent insider threats—it’s always a best practice to structure your security groups to give data modification access to only a handful of trustworthy accounts as well as implementing strong password policies. However, insider security threats can be a persistent concern for systems even with the most robust security group structures. While you can take steps to make login credentials as sophisticated as possible, password compromise can also happen to even the most security-conscious businesses.
How does insider threat management work?
Insider threat management is a multidimensional process involving monitoring, diagnostics, and the mitigation of a suspected insider threat.
Since insider threats typically don’t involve an outside virus or malware, it can be virtually impossible to detect with traditional antivirus software. Insider threat management is rooted in analyzing security login, logoff, and data modification logs for unusual user behavior, since these logs collect stats that are traceable to each unit in the system. By monitoring these security events, users can disable suspicious actors if insider threats are suspected.
Why is insider threat management important?
Insider threat management is critical for protecting sensitive business data. Many businesses focus their security efforts on preventing external cyberattacks, which means protecting business credentials from hackers. However, to more effectively protect sensitive business information, business must also ensure account credentials aren’t misused by authorized users.
Plenty of employees and associates may have authorized credentials, including former employees, IT specialists, vendors, and business partners. Depending on their permission levels, these individuals may have open access to important data.
Regardless of why the malicious activity occurs, it’s important to have instant insight into potentially harmful changes. With insider threat management, you can more effectively track credential misuse and proactively change credential settings to help prevent threats.
Insider threat management is also important if your business needs to keep audit logs to demonstrate compliance. You must take measures to prevent insider threats and have an audit trail of user activity to comply with common industry standards like HIPAA and PCI DSS.
What does insider threat management software do?
There’s little time between the identification of a potential insider threat and acting to prevent damage. Insider threat management software works to help automate the identification and resolution of insider threats before they can negatively affect your system operations.
How does insider threat management work in SolarWinds Security Event Monitor?
SolarWinds Security Event Monitor is designed to act as a Security Operations Center (SOC) working 24/7 to monitor your security data logs for suspicious activity like insider threats and includes automatic response capabilities, including disabling user accounts, shutting down computers, and blocking potentially malicious IP addresses of bad actors.
The security data log features in SolarWinds SEM are also built to help identify and respond to threats in real time while helping you demonstrate industry compliance standards with out-of-the-box reporting for HIPAA, SOX, DISA STIG, and more.
- What is insider threat management?
- How does insider threat management work?
- Why is insider threat management important?
- What does insider threat management software do?
- How does insider threat management work in SolarWinds Security Event Monitor?
What is insider threat management?
Insider threats, also known as “privilege threats,” occur when someone with malicious intent gains access to password-protected system data. This person may be an employee, but not necessarily—anyone with authorized credentials, including business partners or vendors, can pose an insider threat.
Log data is the key to flagging suspicious activity from credentialed users. Insider threat management involves monitoring log data to quickly detect anomalies that could signal malicious or improper activity.
Organizations can take some basic safeguards to prevent insider threats—it’s always a best practice to structure your security groups to give data modification access to only a handful of trustworthy accounts as well as implementing strong password policies. However, insider security threats can be a persistent concern for systems even with the most robust security group structures. While you can take steps to make login credentials as sophisticated as possible, password compromise can also happen to even the most security-conscious businesses.
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