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Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Sixth Edition

Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Sixth Edition

Description: This sixth edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats provides the current recommendations of the CERT Division (part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute), based on an expanded corpus of more than 1,500 insider threat cases and continued research and analysis. It introduces the topic of insider threats, describes its intended audience, outlines changes for this edition, defines insider threats, and outlines current trends. The guide then describes 21 practices that organizations should implement to prevent and detect insider threats, as well as case studies of organizations that failed to do so.

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Publication Date: 2019-02-01

Fiscal Year: 2019

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