An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Elevate Security offers a unique insider threat reduction take on cybersecurity by providing measurement and controls that raise manager and employee awareness of insecure system practices and user behaviors.
Analysts say 85% of security incidents are the result of human error and we see the cost of breaches rising every year. then the host of threat detection, vulnerability research, network security, authentication, UEBA and remediation tools enterprises invest in are still apparently leaving bad actors a wide open ground-floor window — through the company’s own people.
This human attack surface can be partially addressed by setting tighter access controls and usage policies. But when security measures create too much inconvenience, users are naturally tempted to circumvent responsible practices.
Elevate Security’s platform observes many other security, network and system information tools, learning the behaviors of groups and individual users in order to generate ‘Human Risk Profile’ analytics across the organization. CISOs and security teams could of course take punitive actions on such metrics, and restrict policies within many other security tools based on this information.
However, this solution rises above by also providing a ‘carrots not sticks’ positive feedback loop of messages to employees and managers, so they can proactively improve their own security posture — and think about their risk score before clicking on that next phishing link, or emailing customer data outside the company.
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