Who’s on your network? A look at Insider Threats
Sponsored by the MIS Department, December 15, 2020, at 11:00 AM webinar discussing Insider Threats. Tim Black, an Internal Audit Director for Cyber-Security at Vanguard will be discussing this topic. Mr. Black has over 13 years of experience designing, certifying, auditing, and consulting for cybersecurity programs in both the defense and financial services industries. Tim currently leads the global audit team for a large investment management company responsible for assessing all aspects of cybersecurity including insider threats.
Incidents involving insider threats continue to increase year after year. Breaches or incidents resulting from these threats can be more impactful due to the inside knowledge of key systems, access to sensitive data, and awareness of limitations within the environment. This webinar will provide an overview of insider threats, what you can do to prevent and detect these types of threats, and provide an approach to assessing an insider threat program.
During this webinar, I learned about the importance of being able to identify insider threats. I also learned why it\\\’s important to be able to monitor the data being downloaded, transferred and stored within an organization. I learned that their are a few different setups regarding who you want to have access to important information within an organization. Tim gave us some examples of how insider threats are recognized and the fail safes that can be put in place to prevent them, as well as auditing for the IT audits themselves.
This webinar helped me understand more of what goes on within IT auditing, a common role for many undergraduates coming out of college. The IT auditing sector was not something I knew a lot about before joining the MIS major.