A Review on Insider Threat Status in Malaysian Organization
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 10
Abstract
An insider threat is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data and computer systems. The threat may involve fraud, the theft of confidential or commercially valuable information, the theft of intellectual property, or the sabotage of computer systems. Insider threat ranks among the most pressing cyber security challenges that threaten government and industry information infrastructures indirectly give the negatively impact to industries and national security. The threat that insiders pose faced by corporations and governments today is a real and significant problem and to be of serious concern. Selling and sharing confidential information industrial design, organisational strategic plans, customers, suppliers, experts and other valuable information for monetary benefit, revenge, bribery are just some of the examples of insider threats. many are familiar with the damage of insider threat but some of them are familiar with the terms of drudge, cyber plan of attack, cyber security system and others. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review issue related to insider threat, potential people to be insider threats, reasons to be an attacker, and the characteristics of the insider threat, as well as to seek more information on the impact to the organisation’s performance. Therefore, it is hoped that this paper will assist readers, especially the top management of the organizations to understanding more on the issue related to the insider threat.
Authors and Affiliations
S. N. Isnin, M. Sedek
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