These threats are often underreported because insiders can hide their actions for months, using trusted access across multiple identities and devices. The longer these breaches go undetected, the more severe the damage. While external threats still exist, it’s harder for outsiders to penetrate an organization. Overemphasizing external threats leaves organizations vulnerable to the rising threat of insiders. Organizations must equip security analysts with the tools to not detect and prevent insider incidents by identifying risk factors and malicious intent. For CISOs and senior decision makers who manage risk and privacy, there’s an urgent need to understand insider risk and the tools necessary to track it. It’s also necessary to share that understanding, these tools, and the responsibility of investigating and mitigating incidents with other teams in the organization, in part by forming a shared governance executive committee. Because while