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The CERT Division's National Insider Threat Center (NITC) Symposium
Addressing the Challenges of Maturing an Insider Threat (Risk) ProgramOn May 10, 2019, the Software Engineering Institute's National Insider Threat Center (NITC) will host....
• By Randy Trzeciak
In Insider Threat
Insider Threats in the Federal Government (Part 3 of 9: Insider Threats Across Industry Sectors)
The CERT National Insider Threat Center (NITC) Insider Threat Incident Corpus contains over 2,000 incidents, which, as Director Randy Trzeciak writes, acts as the "foundation for our empirical research and …
• By Sarah Miller, Randy Trzeciak, Carrie Gardner
In Insider Threat
Classifying Industry Sectors: Our New Approach to an Industry Sector Taxonomy (Part 2 of 9: Insider Threats Across Industry Sectors)
As Randy Trzeciak mentioned in the first blog in this series, we are often asked about the commonalities of insider incidents for a particular sector....
• By Carrie Gardner, Randy Trzeciak
In Insider Threat
Insider Threat Incident Analysis by Sector (Part 1 of 9)
Hello, I am Randy Trzeciak, Director of the CERT National Insider Threat Center (NITC). I would like to welcome you to the NITC blog series on insider threat incidents within …
• By Randy Trzeciak, CERT Insider Threat Center
In Insider Threat
Announcing the National Insider Threat Center
The CERT® Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce the creation of the CERT National Insider Threat Center (NITC). The establishment of …
• By Randy Trzeciak, CERT Insider Threat Center
In Insider Threat
5 Best Practices to Prevent Insider Threat
Insider threat continues to be a problem with approximately 50 percent of organizations experiencing at least one malicious insider incident per year....
• By Randy Trzeciak
In Insider Threat
Wrap Up of CERT Best Practices to Mitigate Insider Threats Series
We hope you enjoyed our 20-part blog series describing the best practices included in the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats published by the CERT Insider Threat Center. This …
• By Randy Trzeciak, CERT Insider Threat Center
In Insider Threat
Introduction to the CERT Best Practices to Mitigate Insider Threats Blog Series
We at the CERT Insider Threat Center are proud to announce the release of the fifth edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats (CSG). This edition of …
• By Randy Trzeciak, CERT Insider Threat Center
In Insider Threat
Responding to New Federal Requirements for Contractors
On May 18, 2016, the DOD published Change 2 to DoD 5220.22-M, "National Industrial Security Operating Manual (NISPOM)," which requires contractors to establish and maintain an insider threat program to …
• By Randy Trzeciak
In Insider Threat
Attend Our Insider Threat Webinar
On Thursday, August 8, the SEI is hosting the webinar Managing the Insider Threat: What Every Organization Should Know. Join me and my colleagues as we discuss insider threat challenges …