September marks National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM), a dedicated time to raise awareness about the risks posed by insider threats—those that originate from within an organization. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), insider threats account for roughly 22% of all security incidents. This includes both malicious insiders (those with harmful intent) and inadvertent insiders (employees who make errors that lead to breaches).
The NITAM theme for 2024 is “Deter. Detect. Mitigate.”
Deter: Build a Culture of Security
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Programmers Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year – chosen because this is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, and the highest power of two which is less than 365. And when this number is translated to binary code? It reads 1 0000 0000.
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