Motivations for Insider Threats: What to Watch Out For

While a majority of discourse in the cybersecurity industry is focused on external threats – malicious hacking, phishing, and the like – the fact is that internal actors are just as capable of causing damage to an enterprise, if not more so. An insider threat may have access to resources or areas of the network that someone outside the organization would need to do extra work to obtain. Insider threats, similarly to external ones, come in a wide variety of packages and can be motivated by many different factors. Malicious Insider Threats 1. Financial Gain Many internal actors who perpetrate…