a team within the office of the chief information security officer of a global financial services organisation, I had several questions constantly running through my head. Whether it was during meetings with my operations teams or with the various auditors or regulators who I got to know very well, the questions were generally the same:
Qush Security was founded in 2016 to bring some much-needed innovation to the data protection and insider threat marketData loss and insider threat activity are some of the hardest-to-spot cyber risks. After all, much of this activity is conducted by legitimate users accessing data to which they have equally legitimate access. Another factor is the apparent dichotomy of an increasing focus around privacy and regulatory requirements for robust and auditable data protection.
Admittedly, there are cases of data loss via malicious insiders, but most data loss incidents involve users trying to do their jobs under extreme external pressure while exposed to risks of which they are either unaware or don’t fully understand.