Insider Threat Management: The O'Reilly® Guide to Proactive Data Security

Security Leaders, Risk Management Officers, and Compliance Architects looking to modernize their data protection strategy beyond static DLP.

Written by Reet Kaur. Discover why legacy DLP fails against the "AI-Accelerated Insider" and how to build a program that moves from paranoia to preparedness. Reserve your complimentary digital copy today (Arriving January 2025).

The "AI-Accelerated" Insider Reality

• **The New Adversary:** Learn why insider threats are now the most expensive breach vector—averaging $4.92 million per incident—and how AI copilots have become the new "insider" by exposing data through prompt history and memory.
• **The Mindset Gap:** Discover why organizations fail to see threats that look like legitimate work, and how the "blind spot" in traditional logging buys malicious actors an average of 260 days to operate undetected.
• **Anatomy of a Threat:** Break down the Motive, Means, and Opportunity triad to predict the "quiet moves" employees make—from resentment-fueled sabotage to accidental negligence involving public AI tools.

Why Legacy DLP Misses the "SaaS Pivot"

• **Context Over Content:** Understand why DLP tools fail to catch the "SaaS Pivot"—where users upload data to legitimate business tools during the day and retrieve it on unmanaged devices at night.
• **Investigating Agentic Risk:** Gain strategies for investigating "Agentic Misalignment," where autonomous AI agents pursue goals that conflict with human intent, bypassing access boundaries without malice.
• **Reconstructing the Story:** Learn how to stitch together data lineage to visualize the full path of exfiltration—connecting the dots between a compressed file, a personal cloud sync, and a deleted log.

A Blueprint for "Two-Gear" Operations

• **The Two-Gear Operating Model:** Implement a program that shifts between "Baseline" (guidance and nudges) and "Heightened" (containment and rigorous controls) postures based on real-time risk appetite.
• **The First 90 Days:** A tactical roadmap to establish visibility, retire dormant access, and register AI agents with defined scopes and kill switches.
• **Culture of Fairness:** How to build a program rooted in trust and verification, ensuring investigations are principled and consequences are proportionate to intent.

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