Citation[]
George Silowash, Dawn Cappelli, Andrew P. Moore, Randall F. Trzeciak, Timothy J. Shimeall & Lori Flynn, Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats (4th ed.) (Dec. 2012) (full-text).
Overview[]
This report provides the most current recommendations of the CERT® Program (part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute) on mitigating insider threats. It introduces the topic of insider threats, explains its intended audience and how this guide differs from previous editions, defines insider threats, and outlines current patterns and trends.
The guide then describes 19 practices that organizations should implement across the enterprise to prevent and detect insider threats, as well as case studies of organizations that failed to do so. Each practice includes challenges to implementation, quick wins and high-impact solutions for small and large organizations, and relevant security standards.
This edition focuses on six groups within an organization — human resources, legal, physical security, data owners, information technology, and software engineering — and maps the relevant groups to each practice. The appendices provide a revised list of information security best practices, a new mapping of the guide's practices to established security standards, a new breakdown of the practices by organizational group, and new checklists of activities for each practice.