Insider Threat Management
Control access. Monitor insider activity. Respond to incidents
Control access. Monitor insider activity. Respond to incidents
Insider threats in cyber security, sometimes referred to as user-based threats, are one of the major risks for organizations.
Ekran System® software platform supports your insider threat program at each step: managing access, auditing activity, and detecting and responding to incidents.
Insiders are employees, third-party contractors, and other business partners that have legitimate access to corporate data and infrastructure.
Insider threats can entail abuse of privileged access in order to steal, corrupt, or destroy valuable corporate or employee data. But security incidents can also be caused inadvertently by those with access to corporate assets. While data breaches are the most common security issue, critical configuration changes and misuse of corporate assets also should be covered by an insider security policy.
When developing policies to mitigate and prevent insider security risks, security officers must consider specific approaches and tools. Detecting and investigating incidents caused by insiders is quite challenging for various reasons:
Insiders have authorized access.
One insider performs up to 10,000 operations per day, every day.
Insiders know the ins and outs of the system.
Insiders may collude and hide their tracks.
Recent industry research demonstrates the increasing importance of insider threat management, with security experts defining these attacks as the most silent and devastating.
Ekran System is universal enterprise insider threat management software that meets the full spectrum of security needs on all kinds of infrastructure nodes, from desktops to jump servers. The platform combines comprehensive activity monitoring and alerting functionality with an advanced access management and identity control toolset, manual and automated incident response, and powerful reporting capabilities. This makes Ekran System a one-stop solution to implement your insider security policy.
Detect threats and respond in real time
Our insider threat management platform provides a highly configurable alerting subsystem that includes both customizable rules based on generic behavioral indicators of potential insider threats and an AI-powered user behavior analytics module for detecting anomalies in the routines of internal users.
Predefined and custom alerts
Ekran System provides rule-based incident flagging functionality. Its collection of alert templates covers the most common insider threat indicators. At the same time, you can enhance the system with your own alert rules using a variety of activity parameters: process names, opened web addresses, connected USB devices, typed keystrokes, or executed Linux commands.
User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
Ekran’s alert system includes an artificial intelligence module that baselines user behavior against multiple factors to further detect abnormal user activity and possible account compromise.
Automated incident response
To act on triggered alerts beyond merely notifying the security team, Ekran System provides options to set up automated incident response actions. These vary from warning messages obligating users to acknowledge their actions to application termination and user blocking.
USB management
Controlling USB devices is a mandatory part of any insider threat management solution. The Ekran System platform detects, tracks, and may trigger alerts upon connection of various types of USB devices. It also delivers a toolset to allow or block specific devices and device types according to whitelists and blacklists and to apply manual approval for certain USB device usage scenarios.
Ekran System enables granular access management for both privileged and general user accounts. It includes complete privileged account and session management functionality, password management, and access request workflow support. Ekran can also integrate with your ticketing system to reinforce the purpose-based access principle.
To control user identity, it includes reliable and efficient two-factor authentication options.
In this video, we examine a popular insider attack pattern, called a leapfrog attack, on corporate servers. Learn how you can use our insider threat software to detect and stop it.
As an agent-based software platform, Ekran System offers clients for all popular operating systems and supports virtual environments as well as any network architecture. With Ekran System, you can combine agent-based and jump server deployment schemes.
Ekran System delivers user activity monitoring and incident detection together with identity and access management functionality via a single software agent installed on target endpoints. Forget about installing and configuring multiple modules, addons, and extensions. Ekran can entirely support your insider threat-related risk mitigation plan since it’s built in accordance with NIST 800-53 and most IT security standards.
Aimed at employee monitoring and corporate subcontractor control, Ekran System is built and tested to support tens of thousands of endpoints while maintaining exceptional stability and performance. With high availability and support for multi-tenant deployments, system resource and health monitoring dashboards, and maintenance routine automation, Ekran System scales easily and functions perfectly on big heterogeneous infrastructures.
The unique and transparent licensing offered by Ekran System allows for clear cost estimates and rapid time to value for deployments of any size, from small pilots to enterprise projects. Floating endpoint licensing enables license reassignment between endpoints in a couple of clicks. For virtual environments, the license provisioning process is automated to enhance your organization’s agility.
Visually structured evidence trail resulting in low incident response time
AI-based compromised account detection
Lightweight software agent and highly optimized formats for storing data
Active in your environment in 20 minutes or less
6-minute overview of the Ekran System Insider Risk Management Solution showcasing user activity monitoring, user behavior analytics, employee monitoring, and insider threat detection.