Defending against insider threats is one of the biggest challenges an organization can face, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made detection more challenging as remote employees continue to use virtual private networks (VPNs) to access sensitive company files and information.
Regardless of whether an attacker is a disgruntled or financially-motivated employee, contractor, or supplier, or an external actor using compromised credentials, security teams can use deception technology to detect unauthorized network scans, credential theft and reuse, or attempts to access and steal data. They do this by expertly planting deceptions – like deception servers, file shares, credentials, documents with beaconing capabilities, files, databases, and other decoy elements – to quickly detect policy violations or malicious activity from insider threats.