Insider Threat in Banking Systems
Qussai M. Yaseen · Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book series · 2016
Insider threat poses huge loss to organizations since malicious insiders have enough knowledge to attack high sensitive information. Moreover, preventing and detecting insider attacks is a hard job because malicious insiders follow legal paths to launch attacks. This threat leads all kinds of attacks in banking systems in the amount of loss it causes. Insider threat in banking systems poses huge harm to banks due to the importance and attractiveness of assets that banks have. This chapter discusses insider threat problem in banking sector, and introduces important surveys and case studies that show the severeness of this threat in this sector. Moreover, the chapter demonstrates some policies, technologies and tools that may prevent and detect insider threat in banking systems.