While the reported $40 billion of insider threat losses for the US economy seem scary, many companies consider insider threats to be more like a ‘black swan’ event – highly visible, but extremely rare, abstract, and too hard-to-predict in order for it to constitute a real threat. But it is the gray areas companies should be wary of.

In previous posts of this series, we described how companies are affected by malicious insider incidents, and what impact and cost these incidents might cause. Most think of highly publicized whistleblower cases such as Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning. Overall, these seem like natural disasters (e.g., earth quakes), you can take some precautions, but then you just hope it will not happen to you … and if it does, it will be disastrous (and you just have to accept it).

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