Insider Threat Detection
Detecting Data Exfiltration Before Employee Resignation
Employees steal data months before resigning, leaving a detectable behavioral arc.
Renata Szymańska
· 12 min read
Employees steal data months before resigning, leaving a detectable behavioral arc.
Privileged accounts demand behavioral detection, not access rules, to catch insider abuse.
Old detection logic collapses when work leaves the office walls.
Implement structured case workflows to turn insider threat alerts into defensible investigations.
Context matters more than individual suspicious events when identifying insider threat types.
Recognizable patterns in source code theft can help companies catch insiders before damage occurs.
Build insider threat programs with legal and HR aligned before detection tools go live.
Mislabeled and untracked data leaves most sensitive information invisible to DLP systems.