Mitigating Insider Threats: Combining Technology and Employee Awareness

This report outlines the risk and impact of **insider threats**, emphasizing the importance of continuous **employee training**, AI-driven **behavioral analytics** integrated with SIEM, and robust **access control** (least privilege, MFA, RBAC, and regular audits) to detect and mitigate insider-driven risks. It highlights how proactive policies, monitoring of privileged activity, and rapid access revocation reduce exposure, illustrating lessons learned through real-world examples of credential abuse and destructive actions by insiders.