Insider threats pose a significant and growing risk to organizations, requiring strong solutions to detect, investigate, build cases and respond to such risks. Standalone solutions like User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) have traditionally been piecemealed to address specific aspects of insider threats.
However, managing multiple separate insider threat tools can be complex and resource-intensive. For instance, anomaly detection in a single solution lacks sufficient context and often results in false positives that insider threat analysts waste cycles on. The investigation of such anomalies is cumbersome as data and insights reside in siloes—resulting in wasted precious resources.
The risk of insider threats comes not just from employees but also business partners, contractors, and even privileged users with access to sensitive information. In today’s data-driven world, many threats arise from the mishandling or theft of intellectual property, as well as data exfiltration by risky users.
These threats can be difficult to detect without advanced tools that provide real-time visibility and user activity monitoring. To combat this, modern insider threat detection tools and solutions are integrated across the organization to identify potential insider threats and prevent data from being compromised. ID Watchdog reports 60% of data breaches are caused by insider threats with an average cost of $11.5 million.
Gurucul’s Threat Management ITM solution offers a unified insider threat solution that combines UEBA, Identity and Access Analytics, behavioral DLP, NTA and telemetry from business applications that monitor users providing organizations with a unified approach to insider threat management.
This process involves detecting anomalies in user activity monitoring and identifying high-risk behavior from privileged users or any other risky users who may compromise sensitive information and intellectual property. This level of visibility allows security teams to assess and react to potential insider threats before they escalate into larger issues like data exfiltration or intellectual property theft.
In this article, we’ll look at the problems with using separate tools and how Gurucul’s all-in-one approach can make it easier to detect insider threats, manage cases, and respond quickly.
Managing multiple standalone insider threat solutions can present several challenges for organizations:
Each standalone insider threat solution operates independently, leading to siloed data and analysis. This fragmentation can hinder the ability to correlate and contextualize information, resulting in unsubstantiated false positives—or worse, with missed or delayed detection of insider threats.
Managing multiple insider threat tools takes a lot of time, effort, and knowledge. Organizations often have trouble making different tools work together, which can create gaps in security. This becomes even more difficult when dealing with HR systems that have important employee sentiment data, which can also lead to inefficiencies and missed coverage.
The ability to effectively collaborate with HR and Legal is a unique and critical component to any insider threat program. Standalone insider threat solutions make collaboration difficult throughout the entire case creation and management lifecycle. Weak cases lacking adequate context deteriorate trust with those business units and potentially infringe on privacy laws. Meanwhile, the ability to create complete cases is extremely time-consuming, reducing the chances of preventing insider risk before exfiltration occurs.
Standalone insider threat solutions often lack comprehensive response capabilities, particularly in the areas of privileged access management and endpoint detection and response. This limitation can impede the organization’s ability to swiftly mitigate insider threats and contain potential breaches.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools work by following rules that target known threats. However, they only check data when it’s leaving the system, which limits their ability to catch insider threats earlier on. Because of this, DLP tools can miss important signs that could help reduce user access and stop data exfiltration before it even starts.
Gurucul offers a unified insider threat solution that combines UEBA, Identity Analytics, behavioral DLP and NTA functionalities, empowering organizations to proactively detect and respond to insider threats in real-time. Through this approach, Gurucul consolidates data from diverse sources such as user or entity activity logs, network traffic, endpoint telemetry, security and IT ops data, as well as less conventional business and HR application data. This unified data pool offers a comprehensive perspective on insider threat activity, enabling Gurucul to detect anomalies and true risks effectively.
Leveraging advanced user behavior analytics and robust management tools, organizations can effectively prevent insider threats by implementing a unified platform that provides comprehensive visibility and real-time threat detection capabilities.
By bringing together and analyzing all this data in real time, Gurucul can spot small behavior changes. When combined with other related data, this helps predict insider risks before anything bad happens. This proactive stance empowers organizations to swiftly respond to potential security incidents and mitigate risks before they escalate, fortifying defenses against insider threats in today’s dynamic cybersecurity landscape.
Here’s how the Gurucul insider threat solution addresses the limitations of standalone tools:
Gurucul employs advanced predictive analytics techniques to analyze data from various sources in real time to mitigate insider threats effectively in one solution. Here’s how Gurucul accomplishes this:
Gurucul’s unified insider threat solution empowers organizations to proactively identify various types of insider threats by leveraging advanced analytics to monitor and assess employee activity across multiple data sources, providing a comprehensive approach to risk mitigation.
Gurucul integrates seamlessly with existing PAM and EDR solutions, enabling organizations to leverage their investments in these technologies. Through its Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) capabilities, Gurucul automates incident response workflows, allowing for swift remediation of insider threats.
Gurucul utilizes information from Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems to facilitate our response efforts. This involves activating and executing predefined response playbooks, which can include actions such as enabling detailed logging for the individual in question and instructing the EDR to scan or quarantine their device. Seamless bi-directional coordination between these tools is crucial for efficient incident response.
With the Gurucul insider threat management solution, organizations gain access to a wide range of response actions, including user access management and endpoint remediation. By leveraging its integration with identity management and Zero Trust tools, Gurucul enables organizations to enforce least privilege access policies and revoke access rights in real-time, mitigating the impact of insider threats.
Gurucul employs a comprehensive arsenal of tools, including User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), data science, machine learning, and identity and access analytics, to combat insider threats. Through these technologies, Gurucul gains insights into user provisioning processes and identifies the privileged entitlements held by individuals. This holistic approach equips us to efficiently detect and manage security incidents while harnessing the full potential of our platform. Gurucul also offers Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for a unified next-gen SIEM platform experience.
Organizations must adopt a proactive approach to insider threat management. While standalone solutions like UEBA, PAM, EDR, DLP, and NTA, address specific aspects of insider threats, they often lack interoperability and comprehensive response capabilities.
Gurucul offers a unified insider threat solution that combines functionalities, providing organizations with a holistic approach to insider threat detection and response. It can communicate and respond with PAM and EDR and provide remediation plays. By streamlining data analysis, integration, and response orchestration, Gurucul empowers organizations to effectively mitigate insider threats and safeguard their sensitive data and assets.
