EDITORIAL CYBERSECURITY
The greatest asset becomes the biggest risk
It's never been more important to protect employees from cyber-attacks while also mitigating the risk they pose as trusted insiders. The erosion of the cyber-perimeter as a result of new virtual workforce models necessitates a new approach, one that baselines activities and behaviours and protects employees by highlighting anomalies. By Cybersecurity Expert and J2 CEO, John Mc Loughlin
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and productivity monitoring tools in the hopes of
New approach to enterprise data collection and analysis
working smarter and safer. However, none of these
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solutions focus on the humans driving day-to-day
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ompanies deploy multiple security, intelligence
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how, when, why, where and for how long employees and third
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workforce’s activities – without invading personal privacy.
Intelligence is designed for today’s modern, distributed workforce model. It provides complete visibility into user
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It also empowers business owners to easily see, understand and
and account activity, keeping all data anonymous to protect
act on contextual intelligence using scoring frameworks proven
privacy and only shining a light on abnormal or inefficient
to stop insider threats, prevent data loss, maximise software
behaviours that indicate risks and areas for operational
investments and protect the workforce, wherever they may be.
improvement.
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